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Sept. 2, 2026

Venus passes near Spica this evening

Venus passes near Spica this evening
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Look low in the western sky after sunset, with a clear horizon; the bright planet should be easy to find, while Spica is the fainter point nearby.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with

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the help of AI. Venus passes near Spica this evening.

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Look low in the western sky after sunset. With a

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clear horizon, the bright planet should be easy to find,

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while Spica is the fainter point nearby. Look east for

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the Great Square of Pegasus. These four stars outline the

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flying horse's body. The square is roughly the size of

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your fist held at arm's length. Quick solar update. The

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sun is quite active, with numerous sunspot groups visible. That

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means a moderate chance of northern lights tonight for those

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in northern latitudes. Look north after dark if skies are clear.

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PLD Space adds $ 108 million to Series C funding round.

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Spanish launch services provider PLD Space has secured an additional

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$ 108 million in funding extending the Series C round to

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$ 288 million. The company is preparing for the inaugural flight

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of the Miura 5 rocket later this year. A Falcon

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9 rocket is heading to space later today. SpaceX launches

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from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, sending up the Starlink

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Internet Satellites mission. The booster will attempt to land back

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at Vandenberg. NASA's space weather trackers also note, A burst

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of solar material was seen on the southeast side of

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the sun. There are currently 12 astronauts aboard the International

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Space Station, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson.

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They are traveling at over 17,000 miles per hour, watching

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16 sunrises every day. Space News and Weather Today uses

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AI to gather and narrate information from NASA, and spaceflight

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news sources around the world.