There is plenty of activity on the Sun right now. — July 09, 2026

0:03 Calarogus Shark Media. You're listening to space news and weather today. Summer's best planet viewing is here. Saturn is up all night and Jupiter rises late evening. Both are perfect targets for telescopes and binoculars. The Moon is hidden tonight, making this an excellent time for stargazing. With no moonlight to compete, fainter stars in the Milky Way, shine through Three brilliant stars form the Summer triangle overhead Vega, the brightest, is only twenty five light years away. Deneb, though it looks similar, is actually two thy six hundred light years distant, vastly more luminous. NASA's space weather trackers also note a burst of solar material was seen on the southwest side of the Sun, moving at moderate speed. Asteroid two thousand and seven AA two, about the size of a jumbo jet, will fly past Earth tomorrow about seventeen lunar distances from Earth.

1:12 Completely safe, but a nice reminder of our busy solar system. There is plenty of activity on the Sun right now. Multiple sunspot regions are crackling with energy, and solar flares could fire off at any time. Northern lights chances remain moderate tonight for viewers in Canada and the northernmost States. SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, set to fly later today. The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic. This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and Spaceflight News sources.

1:56 Thanks for listening.