<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/community/planetarium/bakersfield-night-sky/2024/0519.html" dsn="news"><featured/><title>Bakersfield Night Sky — May 19, 2024</title><item_date>05/16/2024 08:46:42 AM</item_date><author>Nick Strobel</author><description/><image><img src="/_resources/assets/img/news/bakersfield-night-sky/may-19-2024-BNS-h.jpg" alt="Late May at 9:30 PM looking southeast and Inset: looking east at 4:40 AM"/></image><tags><tag>2024</tag><tag>bns</tag></tags><content_summary>We had a record number of students walking across the stage at the BC Commencement two Fridays ago with a spectacular fireworks display at the end. It seemed like the sun joined the celebration by sending out several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in...</content_summary></item>