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RSS Feed The September Epsilon Perseids peak tonight at about eight meteors per hour; find dark skies and look after midnight under a waning crescent Moon.
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0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with the help of AI. The September Epsilon Persids peak tonight at roughly 8 meteors per hour. Look for them from dark skies under the waning crescent moon, with the best viewing after midnight. The planet parade continues. Saturn is well placed in the evening. And Jupiter rises earlier each night, both visible without a telescope. Launch coming up tomorrow. A long March 2D CYZ3 from Jukwon Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China, operated by China. An asteroid called 2010 FX9 is passing by in about four days. It's roughly as long as a commercial airliner, passing about nine lunar distances from Earth. No danger, just a cosmic neighbor dropping by.
0:59 The sun has been active lately. with several sunspot groups dotting its surface. Solar flares are possible over the next day or two. For now, aurora chances are moderate for those in far northern latitudes. There are currently 12 astronauts aboard the International Space Station, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They are traveling at over 17,000 miles per hour, watching 16 sunrises every day. NASA's space weather trackers also note, a burst of solar material was seen leaving the sun. This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and spaceflight news sources. Thanks for listening.
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