May 4, 2026
Space Discovery of the Day — May 04, 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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Caloroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Space News and
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Weather today. A bit of cosmic perspective. Neutron stars are
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so dense that a tea spoon of their material would
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weigh about six billion tons on Earth. SpaceX has a
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Falcon nine on the pad at Vandenberg Space Force based California,
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set to fly in the next couple of days. The
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mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt
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to land back at Vandenburg. 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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Venus dominates the western sky after sunset, while Saturn rises
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in the southeast after midnight. Its rings tilted beautifully for
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telescope viewing coastal areas. See minimal tidal range this week.
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These neap tides occur when the Sun and Moon work
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against each other. Right now, twelve humans are living in
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space aboard the International Space Station Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb,
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and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station passes overhead
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several times a day if you know when to look.
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The last quarter Moon stays below the horizon until late
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so the early evening is perfect for finding faint stars
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and nebulae. This is Space News and Weather Today, your
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AI curated guide to the Cosmos. Sources include NASA and
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space news from around the world.
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