May 8, 2026
Night Sky Report — May 08, 2026
China Long March 7 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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Kalaroga Shark Media. Welcome to Space news and weather today.
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Look high in the east for our tourists. A brilliant
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orange star and the brightest in the northern sky. It
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anchors the kite shaped constellation boots the herdsman. Right now,
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twelve humans are living in space aboard the International Space Station,
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Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them.
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The station passes overhead several times a day if you
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know when to look. Launch coming up in the next
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couple of days A long March seven from Winchang Space
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launch site. People's Republic of China, China is sending up
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ninth cargo delivery mission to the Chinese Space Station. A
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slim crescent moon rises in the pre dawn hours, so
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today night's skies stay dark all evening, perfect for stargazing.
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Here's something to think about. Radio signals from Earth have
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been traveling through space for about one hundred years. Any
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civilization within one hundred light years could potentially detect US.
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Quick solar update. The sun is quite active, with numerous
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sunspot groups visible. That means a moderate chance of northern
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lights tonight for those in northern latitudes, look north after
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dark if skies are clear. New 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.
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This is Space news and weather Today, your AI curated
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guide to the cosmos. Sources include NASA and space news
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from around the world.
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