The brightest planet Venus hangs in the west after sunset — May 15, 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 Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, This is Space news and weather today. A beautiful crescent moon hangs in the west this evening. Once it sets, the sky opens up for some great stargazing. The sun is putting on a show for solar observers. Lots of active sunspot regions right now, which means the chance of solar flares stays elevated. Aurora watchers in the far north might catch a faint glow on the horizon tonight. A Falcon nine rocket is set to launch tomorrow from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
0:47 SpaceX is behind this one. The booster will attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic. A Northumbria University PhD student has led an international collaboration to construct the first three dimensional view of Uranus upper atmosphere, showing how the planet's unusual magnetic field sculpts bright auroras thousands of kilometers above its clouds look high in the east for our tourists. A brilliant orange star and the brightest in the northern sky. It anchors the kite shaped constellation boots the Herdsman. The brightest planet, Venus, hangs in the west after sunset. For early risers, Saturn climbs the eastern sky in the pre dawn hours. Something to ponder, one million earths could fit inside the Sun, which contains ninety nine nine point eighty six percent of all the mass in our solar system.
1:49 AI helped gather today's update from NASA and spaceflight News sources. The sky will be here when you wake