The slender crescent Moon graces the evening sky briefly before setting — May 16, 2026
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0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Space News and Weather Today. A bit of cosmic perspective. The International Space Station travels at seventeen to five hundred miles per hour, completing in orbit every ninety minutes. A long March eight rocket is set to launch tomorrow from Wenchang Space Launch Site. People's Republic of China, China, is behind this one. Venus dominates the western sky after sunset, while Saturn rises in the southeast after midnight, its rings tilted beautifully for telescope viewing our tourists blazes overhead tonight, an orange giant star about twenty five times larger than our sun. It's the bottom point of the kite shaped Boots constellation. The slender crescent Moon graces the evening sky briefly before setting. Dark skies follow for most of the night. Right now, twelve humans are living in space aboard the International Space Station, Oleg Cononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them.
1:16 The station passes overhead several times a day if you know when to look. 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. AI helped gather today's update from NASA and spaceflight news sources. The sky will be here when you wake