May 11, 2026
Launch Alert: SpaceX Falcon Heads to Orbit — May 11, 2026
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch coming up. Plus space news and stargazing.
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Calarogu Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Space News and
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weather today. Venus dominates the western sky after sunset, while
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Saturn rises in the southeast after midnight, its rings tilted
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beautifully for telescope viewing. A bit of cosmic perspective, There
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are more stars in the universe than grains of sand
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on all of Earth's beaches, roughly ten sextillion stars. No
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moon tonight means dark skies all night long. This is
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prime time for spotting the Milky Way if you can
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get away from city lights. A Falcon nine rocket is
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set to launch tomorrow from Vandenberg's Space Force Base, California.
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SpaceX is behind this one. The booster will attempt to
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land back at Vandenburg. New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede,
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revealed that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras
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on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these
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lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies.
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Boots the Herdsman rises high tonight, led by brilliant Arcturus.
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This orange giant is only thirty seven light years away,
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practically a neighbor in cosmic terms. Tides are at their
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most extreme this week. As the Moon and Sun combine
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their gravitational pull, Coastal communities see their highest and lowest
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water levels. Space News in Weather Today uses AI to
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gather and narrate information from NASA and spaceflight news sources
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around the world.
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