The Sun is putting on a show for solar observers. — July 30, 2026

0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. You're listening to space news and weather today. The ringed planet Saturn reaches peak visibility this month. Jupiter follows behind, rising around midnight and offering spectacular views before sunrise. If you miss the buck moon last night, look up tonight. It is still beautifully full. Mail deer begin growing their new antlers around this time each summer. Look overhead for the summer triangle three bright stars from three different constellations, Vega, Deneb, and Altaire. This asterism dominates the summer sky. 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. Rocket Launch Alert SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon nine in the next couple of days from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, carrying the Starlink Internet Satellites Mission. NASA's Space Weather trackers also note a burst of solar material was seen on the northeast side of the Sun this July twenty three, twenty twenty six, illustration depicts charged particles from a solar

1:37 storm stripping away charged particles of Mars atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA's Maven Mission. NASA MAVN mission scientists have found that certain types of auroras on Mars form in a similar way. This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening.