A fake confirmation from NASA has helped to drive the absurd story, which seems to resurface every year or two in one form or another. In 2011, a rumor circulated that a comet would pass between the sun and the Earth causing days of darkness. As my fellow Forbes contributor Marshall Shepherd laid out in August, the notion of the sun going dark and of NASA confirming such a story is just silly on its face. #Venus and #Jupiter in close #conjunction this morning (Nov 13) at dawn, low in the southeast below Mars and the waning Moon, from southern Alberta. The sun isn't going dark and it will rise tomorrow and the fourteen days after that, and many more after that.

Source: Forbes November 14, 2017 20:15 UTC