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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Caloroga 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 the Northern lights or Aurora borealis. One
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of nature's most spectacular visual shows, can be elusive. Conventional
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wisdom says that to see them, we need to travel
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to northern Canada or Alaska. Look west. After dark, Venus
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shines like a beacon. Night owls can catch Saturn rising
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in the east around two AM, golden and steady among
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the stars. The Sun is putting on a show for
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solar observers. Lots of active sunspot regions right now, which
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means the chance of solar flares stays elevated. The watchers
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in the far north might catch a faint glow on
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the horizon tonight. Something to ponder. One million earths could
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fit inside the Sun, which contains ninety nine nine eighty
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six percent of all the mass in our solar system.
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SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Vandenberg
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Space Force based California, set to fly tomorrow. The mission
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is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt to
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land back at Vandenburg. A slim crescent moon rises in
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the pre dawn hours, so tonight's sky stay dark all evening,
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perfect for stargazing. AI helped gather today's update from NASA
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and Spaceflight News sources. The sky will be here when
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