Jan. 25, 2026

Aurora Watch Tonight - January 25, 2026

Aurora Watch Tonight - January 25, 2026

Tonight: NASA’s Artemis II Rocket and Spacecraft Make Their Way to Launch Pad. Plus what to see in the night sky.

Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other soruces.

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Calarogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome to sleep from space.

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A small space rock named twenty twenty two OC three

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makes a close approach in about six days. It's about

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the size of a house, passing about one point three

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lunar distances away. Scientists will be watching. NASA's Artemis two

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moon rocket has arrived at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

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Four astronauts will fly around the Moon as early as

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February sixth, the first crude lunar mission in over fifty years.

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SpaceX has a Falcon nine scheduled later today from Vandenberg

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Space Force Base, California. Orion stands high in the southern

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sky after dark, with the three Belt stars pointing down

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to Sirius. The Pleiades star cluster, a tiny dipper shaped group,

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sparkles overhead, visible even from light polluted cities. SOCI twenty

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five continues ramping up. Current conditions show high magnetic complexity,

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with C class flares possible, Aurora chances tonight heightened. That's

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your space update, compiled by AI from NASA, NOE, Space Weather,

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and Spaceflight News. The sky will be here when you wake.

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Sleep well,