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Unlike an airplane, it won't have any blinking lights. It'll be a bit bigger than an airplane, and it will have a smooth, steady motion across the sky. It'll move pretty fast.

Just look for a star that's big and bright and moving across the sky. The space station will appear in the northwestern part of your sky and glide toward the southeast. Before it falls below the horizon in the southeastern sky, it will abruptly disappear!

This International Space Station runs into the Earth's shadow, which is why it suddenly vanishes. So, the space station doesn't have any more sunlight to reflect. We see the space station in the first place because it's reflecting sunlight.

If you have a telescope or a really good camera, you'll be able to make out features on the International Space Station. He said, "I manually point the telescope during a space station flyover, so I can take upwards of pictures in fast succession and hope to get at least a couple that even turn out OK. The space station is traveling at 17, miles per hour! No telescope needed! John told 69 News, "it was so insanely hard to get those photos to be zoomed in that far, even using a tripod you still shake, which makes it very difficult for getting focus.

It was handheld, using a mm lens. Scott said the space station looked like a white dot in his picture, and that's all he saw with his eye as he took the picture. When he zoomed the picture way in, he was able to make out the shape of the space station. It was hidden in the picture until he zoomed in! His camera takes 47 megapixel pictures.

For scale, top of the line smart phones take 12 megapixel pictures. If you do have trouble getting a clear picture of the space station on Thursday, December 10, you're still in luck. Time will tell if the skies will be clear for that fly over.

It'll also fly over for six minutes on Monday, December 21 at a. The space station already did a six-minute fly over this week on Monday, and Tuesday December 7 and 8.

Meteorologist Drew Anderson watched the fly over, and he said it was really cool to see it vanish as it neared the horizon in the west sky. While you're out viewing the space station, there's also something special happening with Jupiter and Saturn.

Aside from the space station, they'll be the brightest objects in the night sky around dinnertime. You'll see them in the southwest sky, and they'll be very close to each other. On that night, the two planets will be so close to each other that it'll look like one giant planet!

This is the first time they've been that close in 20 years. The next time this happens is in 60 years. So, look for those bright planets in the southwest when you go out. You'll have no problem spotting them. After you find them, turn around so the back of your head faces them.

Now, you'll be looking in the northwest sky, which is where the space station appears. While the International Space Station may feel out of this world, just remember: there are astronauts on that space station.

So, remember when you look up there it's likely an astronaut is looking down at you! Find out what experiments those astronauts are doing on the International Space Station right now. Get local Breaking News alerts sent directly to your inbox. An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup.

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Food Things to Do What the Tech? Close 1 of A view of the International Space Station. Drew Anderson. Marty's telescope set up to take pictures. Credit: Marty McGuire. This is the space station flying over Whitehall on Tuesday, December 8.

Get ready to explore the wonders of our incredible universe! The "Space. The space station will fly over the Super Bowl at p.

EST Feb. The game's first quarter will include a commercial for a private spaceflight called Inspiration4 led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, founder of Shift4 Payments. The second ad will invite the public to enter two contests to win a seat on the mission, which will launch on a SpaceX rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft later this year. Isaacman has bought out the SpaceX flight , which is expected to fly four people in orbit on a Crew Dragon for two to four days, and is giving away the three other seats.

One will go to a cancer survivor and healthcare worker from St. Jude's Children Research Hospital. Another seat will go to the winner of an entrepreneur contest run by Shift4Shop, while the final seat is reserved for the winner of a random drawing of people who donate to St. Jude's via the Inspiration4 website. The station's flyover is shortly after midnight station time. It's unclear if some of the crew plan to stay up late to watch the Chiefs and Buccaneers battle it out in Tampa Bay, but it's likely NASA will have the results available to relay up to the astronauts if the crew asks on Monday morning.