NASA's space weather trackers also note: A M2.3 class sol... — July 04, 2026

0:03 Calaruga Shark Media. Welcome to Space news and weather today. Mars and Uranus have an exceptionally close encounter tonight, just a tenth of a degree apart. That's close enough to see both in the same telescope eyepiece. Mars is the bright reddish one pale blue green. Uranus glows faintly beside it. The Moon is a thin crescent rising before dawn, leaving most of the night beautifully dark for stargazing. Three brilliant stars form the summer triangle overhead. Vega, the brightest, is only twenty five light years away. Deneb, though it looks similar, is actually twenty sixteen hundred light years distant, vastly more luminous.

0:53 Aurora australis one of the many asteroids in our neighborhood. Five two three, eight oh eight two thousand and seven mL twenty four swings by today at nearly half a mile wide. It'll pass about nine lunar distances from Earth. No threat, just a cosmic passer by. Quick solar update. The Sun is quite active, with numerous sunspot groups visible. That means a moderate chance of northern lights tonight for those in northern latitudes. Look north after dark if skies are clear. NASA's space weather trackers also note a M two point three class solar flare occurred on the sun.

1:33 Chesterrie House AI helped gather today's update from NASA and spaceflight News sources. The sky will be here when you wake