No Telescope Needed — What Is Visible Right Now — May 07, 2026

0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. You're listening to Space News and Weather today. Launch coming up on May tenth. A Falcon nine from Vandenberg Space four Space California. SpaceX is sending up Starlink Internet satellites. What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agencies Mars orbiters, we now know glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere. Space is strange. Radio signals from Earth have been traveling through space for about one hundred years. Any civilization within one hundred light years could potentially detect Us. The brightest planet, Venus hangs in the west after sunset. For early risers, Saturn climbs the eastern sky in the pre dawn hours. The moon is a thin crescent rising before dawn, leaving most of the night beautifully dark. For stargazing. Look high in the east for arcturists, a brilliant orange star and the brightest in the northern sky. It anchors the kite shaped constellation boots the Herdsman. 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

1:35 north after dark if skies are clear. That's your space update for today, compiled by AI from NASA and Spaceflight News