# Night sky news, November 8, 2026: moon, events, aurora

New Moon, 0% lit. 1 sky event this week and 3 sourced news items for November 8, 2026.

## The sky on November 8, 2026

**Moon.** On the evening of November 8, 2026 the Moon is new moon, 0% illuminated. That day the Moon rises at 6:14 AM MST and sets at 4:16 PM MST. Times are for Denver, Colorado; they shift by minutes to an hour elsewhere in the US and Canada.

### Visible this week

- [Aurora Outlook: Solar Cycle 25 Decline](https://darkskiesdirectory.com/events/aurora-outlook-2026-2028), September 24, 2026 to December 31, 2028. Northern US states and all of Canada; strong geomagnetic storms can push visibility as far south as the mid-latitude US.

**Aurora outlook.** The highest predicted Kp is 3.7 over the next 24 hours and 3.7 over the next 3 days. Kp below 4 is quiet: aurora is mostly confined to the far north. Source: [NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center](https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index).

## Sourced stories

### [How space weather powers auroras in the sky and threatens power grids on the ground](https://darkskiesdirectory.com/nightly-news/2026-11-08/how-space-weather-powers-auroras-in-the-sky-and-threatens-power-grids-on-the-ground)

Source: [Phys.org (Space News section)](https://phys.org/news/2026-11-space-weather-powers-auroras-sky.html)

Space weather powers auroras and threatens grids. Space weather also threatens power grids on the ground. Auroras appear as green or red curtains rippling across the night sky.

### [JWST tracks more than 100 magnified stellar events in the Dragon galaxy](https://darkskiesdirectory.com/nightly-news/2026-11-08/jwst-tracks-more-than-100-magnified-stellar-events-in-the-dragon-galaxy)

Source: [Phys.org (Space News section)](https://phys.org/news/2026-11-jwst-tracks-magnified-stellar-events.html)

Astronomers using JWST found 104 magnified stellar events in the Dragon galaxy. The galaxy is located around 6.5 billion light-years away and these events can reveal luminous stars and possibly dark matter. This discovery more than doubles the previous record of 44 detections in the same galaxy.

### [APOD: 2026 November 8: Major Fireball Meteor](https://darkskiesdirectory.com/nightly-news/2026-11-08/apod-2026-november-8-major-fireball-meteor)

Source: [NASA (all news)](https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-november-8-major-fireball-meteor/)

A major fireball meteor is featured on APOD. The photo was taken in subfreezing temperatures from a mountain pass. The image shows snowy rugged peaks at twilight with soft pinkish colors.

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