Tonight's Moon and What Else Is Up There — May 06, 2026
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Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other sources.
0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning, This is Space News and Weather Today. 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. Venus continues to dazzle in the evening twilight. Saturn becomes visible after midnight, offering a preview of the summer viewing season ahead. New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, reveal that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies.
1:02 Launch coming up on May tenth, a Falcon nine from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. SpaceX is sending up Starlink Internet satellites. The moon is a thin crescent rising before dawn, leaving most of the night beautifully dark for stargazing. Space News and Weather Today uses AI to gather and narrate information from NASA and spaceflight news sources around the world.