🌀 Spiral in the Sky – November 4, 2025

Evening blue fading over Mill Mountain, the trees whispering a little before full dark, and there – a bright curl hung above the rooftops. A soft “S” shape, glowing faintly like someone had drawn it in moonlight and then let it drift. For a minute, it almost felt alive – twirling slowly, dissolving into the air like a thought half-remembered.

At first, I thought comet? cloud? cosmic ghost? But no – word filters in: yes, the comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is up tonight, swinging through the Virginia sky, bright enough for the naked eye if you step away from streetlights. There’s also a Sentinel-1D rocket launch tonight — you can check it at rocketlaunch.live. The trails of its exhaust can twist into those eerie spirals high above the atmosphere, catching sunlight even after dusk. Science and wonder sharing the same inkblot in the heavens.

Somewhere between the comet and the rocket, the spiral floated – a momentary signature, a kind of glowing question mark reminding us how the sky never really sits still.

Back on the ground, the city hums, dogs bark in the valley, and the faint scent of woodsmoke drifts through the crisp air. Somewhere up there, a machine made by human hands is circling Earth, and a ball of ancient ice is writing its own slow arc through the solar system.

Good night, Roanoke – keep looking up.

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