May 5, 2026
Your Morning Space Report — May 05, 2026
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch coming up. Plus space news and stargazing.
Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other sources.
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Calorogus Shark Media. Welcome to Space News and Weather today.
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Neep tides are in effect the gentlest tides of the month.
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With the Sun and Moon at right angles, their pulls
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partially cancel out. New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede,
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reveal that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras
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on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these
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lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies.
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Look west after dark, Venus shines like a beacon. Night
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owls can catch Saturn rising in the east around two AM,
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golden and steady among the stars. The Sun is putting
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on a show for solar observers of active sunspot regions
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right now, which means the chance of solar flares stays elevated.
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Aurora watchers in the far north might catch a faint
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glow on the horizon tonight. Something to ponder. One million
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earths could fit inside the Sun, which contains ninety nine
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nine point eighty six percent of all the mass in
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our solar system. SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the
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pad at Vandenberg Space Force based California, set to fly tomorrow.
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The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will
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attempt to land back at Vandenburg. A slim crescent moon
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rises in the pre dawn hours, so tonight's skies stay
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dark all evening, perfect for stargazing. AI helped gather today's
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update from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. The sky will
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be here when you wake
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