May 1, 2026
Zero Gravity, Full Imagination — May 01, 2026
Tonight's Flower Moon plus space weather and night sky highlights.
Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other soruces.
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Calaroga Shark Media. This is sleep from space. New observations
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of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, revealed that its auroras share
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detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth, suggesting that the
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physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across
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different types of celestial bodies. 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. SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad
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at Cape Canaveral Space for Station Florida, set to fly
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later today. The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The
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booster will attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic,
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which garsaintsche our tourist blazes overhead Tonight, an orange giant
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star about twenty five times larger than our Sun. It's
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the bottom point of the kite shaped Boots constellation. Tonight's
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full moon is the flower Moon. May brings abundant blooms,
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and this full moon celebrates the season of flowers. Quick
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solar update. The Sun is quite active, with numerous sunspot
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groups visible. That means a moderate chance of northern lights
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Tonight for those in northern latitudes, look north after dark
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if skies are clear. Fun fact, the coldest place in
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the known universe is the Boomerang nebula at four fifty
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degree fool, just one degree above absolute zero. AI helped
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gather tonight's update from NASA and spaceflight news sources. Rest
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easy knowing the universe keeps spinning. Good Night,
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