May 20, 2026
Saturn and Its Rings Visible Tonight — May 20, 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. This is Space news and weather today.
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The Sun has been active lately, with several sunspot groups
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dotting its surface. Solar flares are possible over the next
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day or two. For now, aurora chances are moderate for
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those in far northern latitudes. There are currently twelve astronauts
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aboard the International Space Station, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb,
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and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They are traveling at over seventeen
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thousand miles per hour, watching sixteen sunrises every day. The
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moon is waxing gibbous, more than half lit and growing
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toward full. It sets late, giving only a brief window
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of dark skies after sunset. Follow the arc of the
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Big Dipper's handle and you'll arc to our tourists a
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golden orange star, impossible to miss. It's the fourth brightest
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star in the entire night sky. Venus continues to dazzle
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in the evening twilight. Saturn becomes visible after midnight, offering
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a preview of the summer viewing season ahead. New observations
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of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, reveal that its auroras share
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detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth, suggesting that the
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physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across
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different types of celestial bodies. A Falcon nine rocket is
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heading to space. Tomorrow. SpaceX launches from Cape Canaveral Space
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Force Station, Florida, sending up the Starlink Internet Satellites mission.
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The booster will attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic.
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This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and
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s BaseFlight News sources. Thanks for listening.
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