May 16, 2026
The slender crescent Moon graces the evening sky briefly before setting — May 16, 2026
China Long March 8 launches soon. Plus space news, moon phase, and tonight's sky.
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Calaroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Space News and
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Weather Today. A bit of cosmic perspective. The International Space
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Station travels at seventeen to five hundred miles per hour,
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completing in orbit every ninety minutes. A long March eight
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rocket is set to launch tomorrow from Wenchang Space Launch Site.
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People's Republic of China, China, is behind this one. Venus
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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 our tourists blazes overhead tonight, an orange giant star
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about twenty five times larger than our sun. It's the
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bottom point of the kite shaped Boots constellation. The slender
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crescent Moon graces the evening sky briefly before setting. Dark
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skies follow for most of the night. Right now, twelve
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humans are living in space aboard the International Space Station,
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Oleg Cononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them.
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The station passes overhead several times a day if you
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know when to look. A Northumbria University PhD student has
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led an international collaboration to construct the first three dimensional
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view of uranus upper atmosphere, showing how the planet's unusual
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magnetic field sculpts bright auroras thousands of kilometers above its clouds.
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AI helped gather today's update from NASA and spaceflight news sources.
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