July 9, 2026
There is plenty of activity on the Sun right now. — July 09, 2026
The Moon is hidden tonight, making this an excellent time for stargazing. With no moonlight to compete, fainter stars and the Milky Way shine through.
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Calarogus Shark Media. You're listening to space news and weather today.
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Summer's best planet viewing is here. Saturn is up all
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night and Jupiter rises late evening. Both are perfect targets
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for telescopes and binoculars. The Moon is hidden tonight, making
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this an excellent time for stargazing. With no moonlight to compete,
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fainter stars in the Milky Way, shine through Three brilliant
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stars form the Summer triangle overhead Vega, the brightest, is
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only twenty five light years away. Deneb, though it looks similar,
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is actually two thy six hundred light years distant, vastly
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more luminous. NASA's space weather trackers also note a burst
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of solar material was seen on the southwest side of
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the Sun, moving at moderate speed. Asteroid two thousand and
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seven AA two, about the size of a jumbo jet,
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will fly past Earth tomorrow about seventeen lunar distances from Earth.
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Completely safe, but a nice reminder of our busy solar system.
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There is plenty of activity on the Sun right now.
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Multiple sunspot regions are crackling with energy, and solar flares
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could fire off at any time. Northern lights chances remain
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moderate tonight for viewers in Canada and the northernmost States.
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SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Cape
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Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, set to fly later today.
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The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will
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attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic. This episode
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was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and Spaceflight News sources.
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Thanks for listening.
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