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Aug. 17, 2026

On August 15, Mercury and Jupiter meet low in the: Why This Matters Tonight

On August 15, Mercury and Jupiter meet low in the: Why This Matters Tonight
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On August 15, Mercury and Jupiter meet low in the eastern sky before sunrise. The bright planets come within 33 arcminutes of each other, near the Beehive...

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Calorogus Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with

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the help of AI. On August fifteenth, Mercury and Jupiter

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meet low in the eastern sky before sunrise. The bright

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planets come within thirty three arc minutes of each other

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near the Beehive cluster. Though twilight makes binoculars and a

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clear horizon especially useful. This is Saturn's best month. The

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ringed planet is visible all night, and at its brightest,

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Jupiter is not far behind, rising in the late evening.

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The Moon is growing brighter each night as it approaches

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full Tonight, it'll stay up late, so stargazing is best

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right after sunset. NASA's space weather trackers also note a

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burst of solar material was seen on the northeast side

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of the Sun. There is plenty of activity on the

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Sun right now. Multiple sunspot regions are crackling with energy,

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and solar flares could fire off at any time. Northern

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lights chances remain moderate tonight for viewers in Canada and

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the northernmost States. Launch coming up in the next couple

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of days. A juk Thie from Jukwan's satellite Launch Center,

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People's Republic of China, operated by Land space. The European

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Space Agency selects Ariani six to launch deep space cubeesat

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the European Space Agency has awarded a contract to launch

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its Solar Storm Monitoring Cube SAT on an Ariani six rocket.

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This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and

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Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening.