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 teaspoon of their material would weigh
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about six billion tons on Earth. SpaceX has a Falcon
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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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Dominates the western sky after sunset, while Saturn rises in
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the southeast after midnight. Its rings tilted beautifully for telescope
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viewing coastal areas. See minimal tidal range this week. These
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naptides occur when the Sun and Moon work against each other.
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Right now, twelve humans are living in space aboard the
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International Space Station Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell
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Dyson among them. The station passes overhead several times a
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day if you know when to look. The last quarter
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moon stays below the horizon until late so the early
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evening is perfect for finding faint stars and nebulae. This
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is Space news and weather Today, your AI curated guide
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to the Cosmos. Sources include NASA and space news from
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around the world.
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