May 7, 2026
No Telescope Needed — What Is Visible Right Now — May 07, 2026
SpaceX Falcon 9 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. You're listening to Space News and Weather today.
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Launch coming up on May tenth. A Falcon nine from
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Vandenberg Space four Space California. SpaceX is sending up Starlink
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Internet satellites. What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars?
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Thanks to the European Space Agencies Mars orbiters, we now
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know glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere. Space is strange.
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Radio signals from Earth have been traveling through space for
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about one hundred years. Any civilization within one hundred light
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years could potentially detect Us. The brightest planet, Venus hangs
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in the west after sunset. For early risers, Saturn climbs
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the eastern sky in the pre dawn hours. The moon
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is a thin crescent rising before dawn, leaving most of
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the night beautifully dark. For stargazing. Look high in the
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east for arcturists, a brilliant orange star and the brightest
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in the northern sky. It anchors the kite shaped constellation
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boots the Herdsman. Quick solar update. The sun is quite active,
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with numerous sunspot groups visible. That means a moderate chance
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of northern lights tonight. For Those in northern latitudes look
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north after dark if skies are clear. That's your space
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update for today, compiled by AI from NASA and Spaceflight
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