July 26, 2026
Asteroid flyby alert: 2015 BF, roughly the length of a bu... — July 26, 2026
The Moon rises late tonight, giving you dark skies for the first few hours after sunset. Great time to catch some stars!
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Calarogus Shark Media. You're listening to space news and weather
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today ear since Beeversin's Saturn is now visible all night long,
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reaching its highest point around two am. Jupiter rises before midnight,
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growing brighter each week. The moon rises late tonight, giving
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you dark skies for the first few hours after sunset,
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great time to catch some stars. Three brilliant stars form
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the summer triangle overhead Vega, the brightest is only twenty
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five light years away. Deneb, though it looks similar, is
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actually two thousand, six hundred light years distant, vastly more luminous.
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Asteroid flyby Alert twenty fifteen BF, roughly the length of
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a bus, passes about seventeen lunar distances from Earth today.
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These close approaches happen weekly. Astronomers track thousands of them.
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NASA Maven Mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece
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in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that
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they form in a similar way to Earth based auroras.
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Results published Thursday in Nature Communications show the same mechanism
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that circulates and catapults charged particles into Earth's atmosphere is
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happening at SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad
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at Vandenberg Space Force based California, set to fly in
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the next couple of days. The mission is called Starlink
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Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt to land back at Vandenburg.
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NASA's space weather trackers also note a burst of solar
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material was seen on the southwest side of the Sun,
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moving at moderate speed. This is Space News and Weather Today,
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your AI curated guide to the Cosmos. Sources include ESSA
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and space news from around the world.
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