Local stargazers and astronomers, reach for your telescopes. Everyone else, just look up. 

The International Space Station will be visible to the naked eye this evening for a six-minute period starting at 9.09pm. The station will appear high in the night sky, up to 88 degrees from the horizon.

And if you're unable to make it outdoors in time, don't despair: the ISS will reappear in Maltese skies periodically through till Monday night, albeit at much more acute angles. 

The most determined of space boffins can actually catch sight of the ISS every day until June 10, but as NASA's Spot The Station website indicates, June sightings will last for less than a minute each time. 

A collaboration between five national space agencies, the ISS is the largest artificial body in orbit. It has been continuously inhabited for the past 15 years and counting, making it the longest continuous human presence in space. Six crew members are currently aboard. 

 

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