Why is world gonna end in 2017

According to popular theories and stories going viral on the internet, the world is coming to an end on September 23 tomorrow. While different theories have predicted different conclusions, some of them suggest world-changing celestial alignment resulting in the end of days or a collision between earth and a rogue planet.

Various other theories have been made several times relating to the end of the world. Originally, the planet was supposed to collide with Earth in but the theories were rescheduled due to cosmos.

Will The World End By ? April 15, - Some people thought it was the end; others just think it's the beginning of the end. The blood moon marked the beginning of a tetrad — four consecutive and complete lunar eclipses occurring at six-month intervals — which some see as a prophecy.

Specifically, Texas televangelist John Hagee author of Blood Moons: Something is About to Change says the blood moons signify a "world-shaking event" that begins to fulfill End Times prophecy , aka the second coming of Christ. And such laid the groundwork for the Mayan calendar doomsday craze of People planned.

People partied. It was debunked , over and over. Celebrities tweeted. The Mayans chuckled. May 21, - Harold Camping, a thenyear-old televangelist and former president of the Family Radio Network, predicted the rapture world end the world with series of worldwide earthquakes hitting at 6 p.

People believed him. One of the claims, championed by self-published author David Meade of Wisconsin, says that on September 23, Earth will encounter a supposed rogue planet called Nibiru, according to his disputed work on Biblical numerology. Originally, this rogue planet was supposed to collide with Earth in However, an uncooperative cosmos forced conspiracy theorists to reschedule for See artists' miniature models imagine a world without humans.

At the same time, an evangelical Christian publication called Unsealed has argued that the Book of Revelations foretells a September 23 alignment of several planets, the sun and moon, and the constellations Virgo and Leo.

They claim the alignment heralds the era leading up to the Rapture , the moment when Christians believe the devout will vanish from Earth to join Jesus in a new paradise. The alignment in question will actually happen. But the significance of the astronomy is debatable. Some star charts count nine, while others—including National Geographic's star atlas—count ten.

Find out more about September's can't-miss sky events. How unique is this alignment? Again, the details are murky: For a couple of days in September or October every year, the moon passes near its supposedly foretold position. Instead, he wants to understand their cultural roots. For instance, U.

Ultimately, all efforts to decode the universe for signs of foretold doom come down to interpretation. And for millennia, humans haven't shown an accurate knack for it, as National Geographic reported in :. In sum: Nibiru doesn't exist, the skies are anyone's to interpret, and the apocalypse has long been elusive.

In all likelihood, we'll see you on September The nickname for this cosmic object—the Sunflower galaxy—is no coincidence: The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope, recalls the pattern at the center of a sunflower.