Another day , another incredibly dazed conspiracy hypothesis resurfaces on the Internet . consort to various – for deprivation of a better give-and-take – numbskulls , the Solar System has a second sun , enshroud behind our tangible Sun .

" A halo is a ring or light that form around the Sun or Moon as the Sun or Moon light refracts off internal-combustion engine crystals present in a thin veil of cirrhus clouds , " the National Weather Serviceexplains . " The halo is usually seen as a bright , white ring although sometimes it can have people of color . "

As inane as theconspiracy theoryis ( remember for a second why anybody would desire to conceal the cosmos of a second Dominicus ) , there are stupider looping . In 2016 , astronomer Paul Cox was livestreaming a transit of Mercury across the Sun when an orb appeared on filmdom , likely an optical fault .

“ You may be ask yourself , what is that turgid round affair to the right of the Sun ? Well , that ’s our second sun . I do n’t have it away if you live that we had a second sun,“Cox said . “ But there it is . It is commonly hide from view . NASA and other organization ordinarily hide that stuff by from us . ”

Though a juiceless joke , it was leapt on byconspiracy theoristsas test copy of the second sunlight ’s cosmos .

If we did have a 2nd sun , you would know about it . uranologist have analyze the orbits of the planets for hundreds of years , and have built up a model of it . fragile disruption in their orbit are noticed and have been used todiscover other planetsthat are shape their orbits through their gravitation . We are plainly not pretermit an object with the passel of a star within our Solar System .

Unlike the Moon , which istidally locked to Earth , the Sun rotates every 27 day , meaning we see the whole of it over the course of a calendar month . A second Sunday would have to orbit the actual tangible Sun at just the right focal ratio that it is never visible from Earth as it orbit , and even thenspacecraftsent out into the Solar System would have seen it from their different vantage full stop . And they have n’t , because there is n’t one .

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