News from Across the Solar System — May 16, 2026
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Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other sources.
0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Space News and Weather Today. A bit of cosmic perspective. The International Space Station travels at seventeen eighty five hundred miles per hour, completing an orbit every ninety minutes. Along March eight rocket is set to launch tomorrow from Wenchang Space Launch Site. People's Republic of China, China, is behind this one. Venus dominates the western sky after sunset, while Saturn rises in the southeast after midnight, its rings tilted beautifully for telescope viewing arcturists blazes overhead tonight, an orange giant star about twenty five times larger than our sun. It's the bottom point of the kite shaped Boots constellation. The slender crescent Moon graces the evening sky briefly before setting. Dark skies follow for most of the night. Right now, twelve humans are living in space aboard the International Space Station, Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station passes overhead several times a day if you know when to look. New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, reveal that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth,
1:34 suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies. AI helped gather today's update from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. The sky will be here when you wake