Venus & Jupiter Taken by Dr. Sebastian Voltmer on June 9, 2026 @ Saarland, Germany
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Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, captured on June 9-10, 2026, framed by the “Wortsegel” (monument to poetry) in Saarland, Germany. The 13-meter steel sculpture by artist Heinrich Popp turns the sky itself into part of the artwork. Seeing Jupiter and Venus suspended between the crescent-shaped arches felt quietly magical.
Photographer’s website:
https://instagram.com/sebastianvoltmer
Jupiter and Venus, Taken by Eric G David on June 10, 2026 @ King George, Virginia
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 06/11/2026
MERCURY RISING TO JOIN VENUS AND JUPITER: Around the world this week, people have been watching Venus and Jupiter converge in the evening sky. Mercury is about to join them. The first planet is rising out of the sunset, as shown in this photo from Eric G. David of King George, Virginia:
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 06/04/2026
WHAT IS A CANNIBAL CME? Just what it sounds like. A CME that eats other CMEs. Yesterday, sunspot 4455 exploded several times and hurled multiple CMEs into space. One of the CMEs was so fast, it caught a slower CME and swallowed it. This NOAA model shows what happened:
AN ANTI-HALE SUNSPOT IS X-FLARING: This was not in the forecast. During the early hours of June 3rd, sunspot 4455 unexpectedly began to erupt, producing a series of X-class and almost-X-class solar flares:
Sunspot 4455 Explosion
ANTI-HALE SUNSPOT TARGETS EARTH: Solar activity is intensifying today following a strong M9-class solar flare from anti-Hale sunspot 4455. “Anti-Hale” means the sunspot has a reversed-polarity magnetic field, which makes it unstable and explosive.
SPACWEATHER ALERT:
Earth-orbiting satellites have just detected an M9.3-Class Solar Flare at June 3, 2026, 01:36:00 UTC. Updates will be posted on Spaceweather.com.
Starship, the launch vehicle for the proposed AI data center
PUTTING THE “MEGA” IN MEGACONSTELLATION: Two months ago, headlines announced a Space Age milestone: SpaceX now has more than 10,000 active Starlink satellites circling Earth–two-thirds of all the working satellites in the sky. Analysts were gobsmacked by the pace of change.
Turns out, that’s nothing. Back in January, SpaceX had already filed paperwork asking the FCC for permission to launch a million. The proposed megaconstellation would become a solar-powered AI data center, requiring hourly rocket launches carrying a million tons of satellites per year.
The Sun in Halpha and G-band, Taken by Thierry Legault on May 24, 2026 @ Paris, France
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 05/25/2026
WHAT MADE THIS SUNSPOT SO MAD? Sunspot 4446 is emerging over the sun’s southeastern limb today and it looks angry. Thierry Legault photographed the seething active region from Paris, France:
The Sun Now – GOES Solar Ultra-violet Image (SUVI)
The behemoth sunspot region is now seen emerging to the Earth side.
Moon, Venus and Jupiter, Taken by Marek Nikodem on May 19, 2026 @ near Szubin, Poland
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 05/22/2026
VENUS AND JUPITER ARE CONVERGING: Earlier this week, sky watchers around the world witnessed a beautiful alignment of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent Moon in the sunset sky. Marek Nikodem photographed the trio from Szubin, Poland:
