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Sept. 13, 2026

Meteor Shower Watch: Best Viewing This Week

Meteor Shower Watch: Best Viewing This Week
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A meteor shower reaches peak activity soon. Find the best time and conditions for watching.

Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other sources.

Also check out UFO Sightings Today to see what else is happening in the skies.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with

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the help of AI. The small September lincid meteor shower

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peaks tonight, producing perhaps three or four meteors per hour.

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The thin crescent moon should leave the sky relatively dark.

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The slender crescent moon graces the evening sky briefly before setting.

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Dark skies follow for most of the night. A Falcon

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9 rocket is set to launch later today from Cape

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Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. SpaceX is behind this one.

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The booster will attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic.

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 to discuss station mission upcoming return. Media

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are invited to hear from NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts during

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a news conference beginning CHEEJ Wednesday, September 16 from the

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International Space Station. NASA's space weather trackers also note a

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burst of solar material was seen leaving the Sun. Asteroid

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Flyby Alert 2010-FX9, comparable to a large aircraft, passes about

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nine lunar distances from Earth today. These close approaches happen weekly.

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Astronomers track thousands of them. There is plenty of activity

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on the Sun right now. Multiple sunspot regions are crackling

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with energy. and solar flares could fire off at any time.

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Northern lights chances remain moderate tonight for viewers in Canada

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and the northernmost states. This is Space News and Weather Today,

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your AI-curated guide to the cosmos. Sources include NASA and

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Space News from around the world. For the strange side

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of the sky, search your podcast app for UFO sightings today,

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the daily briefing on UAPs, Pentagon disclosures, sightings, and alien news.