Look Up, Nagpur! A Football-Field-Sized Space Lab Will Streak Across Your Sky This Weekend
Imagine spotting a blazing white dot — bigger than any star, faster than any aircraft — silently slicing across the night sky. That is the International Space Station (ISS), and it is coming to Vidarbha’s skies for three nights running.
Astronomer Prabhakar Dod has confirmed that the ISS will be visible to the naked eye from this region on May 8, 10, and 11 — no telescope, no equipment needed. Just a clear sky and a few minutes of your time.
The ISS is no ordinary object. Larger than a football field and weighing 460 tonnes, it hurtles through space at 28,000 kilometres per hour — roughly 30 times faster than a commercial aircraft. It circles the entire Earth every 90 minutes, giving astronauts aboard 16 sunrises every single day.
From the ground, it appears as a brilliantly bright, steady white light — no blinking, no colour change — gliding smoothly and swiftly across the sky. That is how you know it is not a plane.
Your viewing schedule: • May 8 — 7:38 PM to 7:45 PM, east-southeast direction • May 10 — 4:41 AM to 4:48 AM, southeast direction • May 11 — 3:54 AM to 4:00 AM, southwest directionStep outside, look up, and watch humanity’s greatest off-world outpost pass right over Nagpur.
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