May 24, 2026
Sky Watch and Space News — May 24, 2026
China Long March 2F/G 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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Kalaroga Shark Media. Welcome to Space news and weather today.
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The Moon is nearly full and quite bright tonight. Early
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evening is your best bet for stargazing before moonlight takes over.
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China has a long March two FG on the pad
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at Djukwan Satellite Launch Center People's Republic of China set
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to fly later today loom up on the International Space Station.
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Twelve people are orbiting Earth right now, including Oleg Kononenko,
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Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Every ninety minutes, they
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circle the planet two hundred and fifty miles overhead. Booty's
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the Herdsman rises high tonight, led by brilliant arcturists. This
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orange giant is only thirty seven light years away, practically
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a neighbor in cosmic terms. New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede,
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reveal that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras
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on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these
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lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies.
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There is plenty of activity on the Sun right now.
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Multiple sunspot regions are crackling with energy and solar flares
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could fire off at any time. Northern lights chances remain
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moderate tonight for viewers in Canada and the northernmost States.
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A bit of cosmic perspective, the Milky Way Galaxy is
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on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy. They'll merge
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in about four point five billion years. Space News and
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