May 19, 2026
Rocket Launch Soon: Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California — May 19, 2026
SpaceX Falcon 9 launches soon. Plus space news, moon phase, and tonight's sky.
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Caloroga Shark Media. You're listening to Space news and weather
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today our tourists blazes overhead tonight an orange giant star
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about twenty five times larger than our sun. It's the
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bottom point of the kite shaped boots constellation. Quick solar update.
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The sun is quite active, with numerous sunspot groups visible.
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That means a moderate chance of northern lights tonight for
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those in northern latitudes. Look north after dark if skies
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are clear. Venus dominates the western sky after sunset, while
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Saturn rises in the southeast after midnight. Its rings tilted
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beautifully for telescope viewing. SpaceX has a Falcon nine on
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the pad at Vandenberg Space Force based California, set to
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fly tomorrow. The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The
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booster will attempt to land back at Vandenberg something to ponder.
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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 Moon is at first quarter,
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half lit and setting around midnight, perfect for evening observing,
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bright enough to see detail, dark enough later for deep
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sky objects. A Northumbria University PhD student has led an
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international collaboration to construct the first three dimensional view of
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urinous upper atmosphere, showing how the planet's unusual magnetic field
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sculpts bright auroras thousands of kilometers above its clouds. That's
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your space update for today, compiled by AI from NASA
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and Spaceflight News.
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