Your Daily Space Briefing — June 02, 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. Welcome to Space News and Weather Today. Heads up for asteroid fans. Twenty eighteen. Ge passes Earth in about five days, about sixteen lunar distances from Earth. It's about the size of a small building, harmless but fun to track. 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.
0:45 Rocket Launch Alert SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon nine tomorrow from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, carrying the Starlink Internet Satellites mission. Saturn rise before midnight, now its famous rings visible through even small telescopes. Jupiter follows in the early morning hours, preparing for its summer appearance. Venus and Jupiter will meet in a dazzling conjunction on June ninth, the two brightest planets side by side. Fun fact, there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches, roughly ten sextillion stars dark skies tonight, the Moon won't rise until the early morning hours, leaving plenty of time for stargazing after sunset.
1:40 This is Space News and Weather Today, your AI curated guide to the Cosmos. Sources include NASA and space news from around the world.