The Moon Turns Dark: A Guide to the Partial Eclipse

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with the help of AI. The next major August sky event is a deep partial lunar eclipse on August twenty seventh, About ninety six percent of the Moon enters Earth's shadow. In the US, the eclipse begins at ten thirty three pm Eastern Time and peaks at twelve thirteen am. Look for the orange shadowed Moon after dark. Saturn shines at its peak brightness, visible from dusk to dawn. Jupiter rises around ten PM, making the late night sky truly spectacular.

0:45 The Moon is growing brighter each night as it approaches full Tonight, it'll stay up late, so stargazing is best right after sunset. NASA's space weather trackers also note a burst of solar material was seen leaving the Sun. SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, set to fly later today. The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic. The Sun has been active lately, with several sunspot groups dotting its surface.

1:25 Solar flares are possible over the next day or two for now Aurora chances are moderate for those in far northern latitudes. A small space rock named two Down four five five two thousand and six BCU ten makes a close approach in about seven days. It's several hundred meters across, passing about nine lunar distances from Earth. Scientists will be watching space news in Weather Today uses AI to gather and narrate information from NASA and spaceflight news sources around the world.