The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has assured the public that the world will not end after Mercury transits the Sun on Monday, as claimed by doomsday conspiracy theorists.
NASA experts used its Asteroid Watch Twitter account to inform the public that a recent doomsday conspiracy was just a scam, the Mirror reports.
NASA was compelled to come out with a statement assuring the public after one website suggested that the passing of Mercury in front of the Sun meant that a complex biblical prophecy was about to come to pass.
This sparked panic which quickly spread across the Internet.
A website called "The Prophetico" uploaded a video on YouTube, claiming that the alignment of the planets and star constellations during Mercury's transit points to the possibility of the world ending on Monday, May 9.
In the video, the narrator explained that May 6, Friday, marked the start of a new moon cycle, coinciding with a so-called "Super Moon," where the moon reaches its closest point in its orbit to Earth.
The narrator further said that this May 9, when Mercury's transit is in full swing, there will be a crescent or sickle moon. This will happen three days after a new moon cycle—significant because the number three is supposedly related to sex sins in the Bible.
If viewed from the Holy Land in Jerusalem, the crescent moon will be aligned with the Orion star constellation.
"The moon itself has been turned into a sickle, so literally turning Orion's club into a mace as he strikes the lion's whelp along the cheek, during the transit [of Mercury]," the video narrator said.
YouTube channel Prophetico also pointed out that during the transit, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars will form another crescent. It was also noted how bizarre it is that Jupiter is not part of this unusual planetary formation.
The video pointed out that that these could be signs of the end times for humanity.
"This is extremely prophetic looking," the narrator stated.
