Speaker 1: Calarogus Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with
Speaker 1: the help of AI. August headline Sky event arrives August twelfth.
Speaker 1: A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, followed
Speaker 1: by the per sed meteor shower's peak on the night
Speaker 1: of August twelve, thirteen. The new moon leaves dark skies,
Speaker 1: with sixty eighty meteors per hour possible before dawn. Totality
Speaker 1: lasts up to two minutes eighteen seconds. Near Iceland use
Speaker 1: certified eclipse glasses. Saturn reaches opposition this month, its closest
Speaker 1: and brightest of the year. Jupiter rises earlier each night,
Speaker 1: dominating the late night sky. Maine ain't look west after
Speaker 1: sunset to catch the thin crescent moon. It'll set early,
Speaker 1: leaving the rest of the night nice and dark. The
Speaker 1: Sun has been active lately, with several sunspot groups dotting
Speaker 1: its surface. Solar flares are possible over the next day
Speaker 1: or two. For now, Aurora chances are moderate for those
Speaker 1: in far northern latitudes. A small space rock named twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen nine to n y two makes a close approach today.
Speaker 1: It's several hundred feet across, passing about six lunar distances
Speaker 1: from Earth. Scientists will be watching launch coming up tomorrow
Speaker 1: along March seven A from Winchang Space launch Site, People's
Speaker 1: Republic of China operated by China. NASA's space weather trackers
Speaker 1: also note a burst of solar material was seen on
Speaker 1: the northeast side of the Sun, moving at moderate speed.
Speaker 1: This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and
Speaker 1: Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening.