# Night sky news, November 9, 2026: moon, events, aurora

Waxing Crescent, 1% lit. 1 sky event this week and 5 sourced news items for November 9, 2026.

## The sky on November 9, 2026

**Moon.** On the evening of November 9, 2026 the Moon is waxing crescent, 1% illuminated. That day the Moon rises at 7:19 AM MST and sets at 4:50 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

### [Are the James Webb Space Telescope's mysterious Little Red Dots actually tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang era?](https://darkskiesdirectory.com/nightly-news/2026-11-09/are-the-james-webb-space-telescope-s-mysterious-little-red-dots-actually-tiny-black-holes-left-over-from-the-big-bang-era)

Source: [Space.com](https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/are-the-james-webb-space-telescopes-mysterious-little-red-dots-actually-tiny-black-holes-left-over-from-the-big-bang-era)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found Little Red Dots. These cosmic objects disappear before the universe is two billion years old, and may be connected to primordial black holes. New research suggests they could be tiny black holes born from fluctuations in matter density after the Big Bang.

### [NASA’s ESCAPADE Completes Powered Earth Flybys, Now En Route to Mars](https://darkskiesdirectory.com/nightly-news/2026-11-09/nasa-s-escapade-completes-powered-earth-flybys-now-en-route-to-mars)

Source: [NASA (all news)](https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-escapade-completes-powered-earth-flybys-now-en-route-to-mars/)

NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft completed powered Earth flybys. The twin spacecraft used Earth's gravity and engine burns to slingshot themselves toward Mars. They are now on target to reach Mars in September 2027.

### [Meteorite that landed in Cape Cod was a 'lone wolf' from the outer solar system, scientists find](https://darkskiesdirectory.com/nightly-news/2026-11-09/meteorite-that-landed-in-cape-cod-was-a-lone-wolf-from-the-outer-solar-system-scientists-find)

Source: [Space.com](https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/meteorite-that-landed-in-cape-cod-was-a-lone-wolf-from-beyond-jupiter-scientists-find)

A meteorite that landed in Cape Cod came from the outer solar system. The meteor was tracked using radar, infrasound, and camera footage to its origin as a small asteroid perturbed by Jupiter. It fell over Cape Cod Bay at 1:06 p.m. local time on May 30, 2026, producing a sonic boom.

### [Celestron Origin’s Mosaic Mode brings wide-field astrophotography to the biggest smart telescope](https://darkskiesdirectory.com/nightly-news/2026-11-09/celestron-origin-s-mosaic-mode-brings-wide-field-astrophotography-to-the-biggest-smart-telescope)

Source: [Astronomy.com](https://www.astronomy.com/uncategorized/celestron-origins-mosaic-mode-brings-wide-field-astrophotography-to-the-biggest-smart-telescope/)

Celestron Origin's Mosaic Mode enables wide-field astrophotography. The Andromeda Galaxy, a popular target, stretches about 3°, requiring multiple shots to capture. The Mosaic Mode allows the Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory to stitch these shots together.

### [NASA’s Chandra Finds Source of Star’s Mysterious Outbursts](https://darkskiesdirectory.com/nightly-news/2026-11-09/nasa-s-chandra-finds-source-of-star-s-mysterious-outbursts)

Source: [NASA (all news)](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasas-chandra-finds-source-of-stars-mysterious-outbursts/)

NASA's Chandra finds source of star's outbursts. The luminous blue variable star AT 2016blu is located in the galaxy NGC 4559, about 30 million light-years from Earth. Chandra X-ray data shows X-ray point sources in purple, with the galaxy and objects in red and blue from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

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