World-ending apocalypse 'cancelled', reassures NASA
The space agency has responded to fears that the world is going to end today
Put your evening plans on hold because the world’s going to end…apparently.
The alignment of several planets and constellations, according to conspiracy theorists, is likely to trigger the “Rapture” today, The Independent reported.
The sun and Jupiter will be in the constellation Virgo, and Venus, Mars and Mercury will be in Leo – an allegedly one-in-7,000-years occurrence.
The formation is supposedly the fulfilment of a sign in the Bible’s Book of Revelation.
A mythological planet called Nibiru will apparently crash into earth and wipe us out, as per rumours, but it was also supposed to happen in 2003 and 2012.
Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) took the time to confirm that the apocalypse is cancelled.
The space agency wrote on their website:
Various people are "predicting" that world will end Sept. 23 when another planet collides with Earth. The planet in question, Niburu, doesn't exist, so there will be no collision.
The story of Niburu has been around for years (as has the "days of darkness" tale) and is periodically recycled into new apocalyptic fables.
If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with [Earth], astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye.