May 6, 2026
The Universe Made the News Today — May 06, 2026
China Long March 7 launch coming up. Plus space news and stargazing.
Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other sources.
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Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Space news and
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weather today. Something to ponder. The Sun loses about four
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million tons of mass every second as it converts hydrogen
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to helium through fusion. Venus continues to dazzle in the
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evening twilight. Saturn becomes visible after midnight, offering a preview
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of the summer viewing season ahead our tourists. Blazes overhead tonight,
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an orange giant star about twenty five times larger than
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our sun. It's the bottom point of the kite shaped
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Boots constellation. The Sun is putting on a show for
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solar observers. Lots of active sunspot regions right now, which
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means the chance of solar flares stays elevated. Aurora watchers
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in the far North might catch a faint low on
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the horizon tonight. The moon is a thin crescent rising
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before dawn, leaving most of the night beautifully dark for stargazing.
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The Northern Lights, or Aurora borealis, one of nature's most
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spectacular visual shows, can be elusive. Conventional wisdom says that
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to see them we need to travel to northern Canada
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or Alaska. Launch coming up on mayo ninth, along March
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seventh from Winchang Space launch site. People's Republic of China.
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China is sending up ninth cargo delivery mission to the
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Chinese Space Station. This episode was assembled using AI pulling
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from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening.
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