Speaker 1: Kalaruga Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with
Speaker 1: the help of AI. The big sky event to watch
Speaker 1: is August twelfth, a rare double header with a total
Speaker 1: solar eclipse crossing Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain, followed that
Speaker 1: night by the peak of the pursed meteor shower from Reykiavik.
Speaker 1: Totality will last about sixty three seconds. Plan ahead and
Speaker 1: use certified eclipse glasses. Saturn reaches opposition this month, its
Speaker 1: closest and brightest of the year. Jupiter rises earlier each night,
Speaker 1: dominating the late night sky. The fading crescent Moon won't
Speaker 1: appear until early morning, giving you dark skies all night long.
Speaker 1: There are currently twelve astronauts aboard the International Space Station,
Speaker 1: including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They
Speaker 1: are traveling at over seventeen thousand miles per hour, watching
Speaker 1: sixteen sunrises every day. Asteroid Flyby Alert twenty nineteen n
Speaker 1: y two, bigger than a sports stadium, passes about six
Speaker 1: lunar distances from Earth in about four days. These close
Speaker 1: approaches happen weekly. Astronomers track thousands of them. NASA's space
Speaker 1: weather trackers also note a burst of solar material was
Speaker 1: seen on the northeast side of the sun. Quick solar update.
Speaker 1: The Sun is quite active with numerous sunspot groups visible.
Speaker 1: That means a moderate chance of northern lights tonight for
Speaker 1: those in northern latitudes. Look north after dark if skies
Speaker 1: are clear. This episode was assembled using AI pulling from
Speaker 1: NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening.