Space Discovery of the Day — May 04, 2026
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0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Space News and Weather today. A bit of cosmic perspective. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoon of their material would weigh about six billion tons on Earth. SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Vandenberg Space Force based California, set to fly in the next couple of days. The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt to land back at Vandenburg. 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.
1:00 Dominates the western sky after sunset, while Saturn rises in the southeast after midnight. Its rings tilted beautifully for telescope viewing coastal areas. See minimal tidal range this week. These naptides occur when the Sun and Moon work against each other. Right now, twelve humans are living in space aboard the International Space Station Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station passes overhead several times a day if you know when to look. The last quarter moon stays below the horizon until late so the early evening is perfect for finding faint stars and nebulae. This is Space news and weather Today, your AI curated guide to the Cosmos. Sources include NASA and space news from around the world.