Sky Watch and Space News — May 24, 2026
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Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other sources.
0:03 Kalaroga Shark Media. Welcome to Space news and weather today. The Moon is nearly full and quite bright tonight. Early evening is your best bet for stargazing before moonlight takes over. China has a long March two FG on the pad at Djukwan Satellite Launch Center People's Republic of China set to fly later today loom up on the International Space Station. Twelve people are orbiting Earth right now, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Every ninety minutes, they circle the planet two hundred and fifty miles overhead. Booty's the Herdsman rises high tonight, led by brilliant arcturists. This orange giant is only thirty seven light years away, practically a neighbor in cosmic terms. New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, reveal that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies.
1:20 There is plenty of activity on the Sun right now. Multiple sunspot regions are crackling with energy and solar flares could fire off at any time. Northern lights chances remain moderate tonight for viewers in Canada and the northernmost States. A bit of cosmic perspective, the Milky Way Galaxy is on a collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy. They'll merge in about four point five billion years. Space News and Weather Today uses AI to gather and narrate information from NASA and spaceflight news sources around the world. M