Find Jupiter: A Simple Night-Sky Guide

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with the help of AI. The moon passes directly in front of Jupiter today, briefly hiding the giant planet for observers in parts of North America and other regions. In much of the United States, the event occurs in daylight, so use extreme care, never point binoculars or a telescope anywhere near the sun. Saturn and Jupiter both grace the evening sky now. Saturn is high in the south after sunset, while Jupiter rises in the east and dominates by midnight.

0:43 One of the many asteroids in our neighborhood, 2010 FX9, swings by in about five days. At roughly as long as a commercial airliner, it'll pass about nine lunar distances from Earth. No threat, just a cosmic passerby. 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. Launch coming up tomorrow. A Soyuz 2.1b from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan. Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, is sending up Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.

1:31 ISAR Aerospace completes first successful spectrum flight. German launch services provider ISAR Aerospace has completed the first successful launch of its spectrum rocket, deploying five CubeSats into low Earth orbit. The mission marked the first time a privately funded European orbital rocket had successfully reached orbit and the first successful orbital launch from continental Europe. NASA's space weather trackers also note a burst of solar material was seen leaving the Sun moving at moderate speed. AI helped gather