May 16, 2026
News from Across the Solar System — May 16, 2026
China Long March 8 launch coming up. Plus space news and stargazing.
Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other sources.
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Calaroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Space News and
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Weather Today. A bit of cosmic perspective. The International Space
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Station travels at seventeen eighty five hundred miles per hour,
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completing an orbit every ninety minutes. Along March eight rocket
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is set to launch tomorrow from Wenchang Space Launch Site.
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People's Republic of China, China, is behind this one. Venus
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dominates the western sky after sunset, while Saturn rises in
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the southeast after midnight, its rings tilted beautifully for telescope
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viewing arcturists blazes overhead tonight, an orange giant star about
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twenty five times larger than our sun. It's the bottom
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point of the kite shaped Boots constellation. The slender crescent
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Moon graces the evening sky briefly before setting. Dark skies
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follow for most of the night. Right now, twelve humans
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are living in space aboard the International Space Station, Oleg Kononenko,
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Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station
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passes overhead several times a day if you know when
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to look. New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, reveal
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that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth,
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suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may
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be universal across different types of celestial bodies. AI helped
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gather today's update from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. The
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sky will be here when you wake
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