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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Calorogus 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 beeches, 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 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. Observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede,
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reveal 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. Booties.
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The Herdsman rises high tonight, led by brilliant Arcturus. This
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orange giant is only thirty seven light years away, practically
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a neighbour. In cosmic terms. Tides are at their most
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extreme this week. As the Moon and Sun combine their
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gravitational pull, coastal communities see their highest and lowest water levels.
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Space News in Weather Today uses AI to gather and
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narrate information from NASA and spaceflight news sources around the
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