Jan. 28, 2026
Aurora Watch Tonight - January 28, 2026
Tonight: Artemis II rollout. 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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Calaruga Shark Media. Welcome to sleep from space. The winter
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sky is dominated by Orion tonight. Use the belt to
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find other treasures. Follow it up and right to the Pleiades,
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or down and left to Sirius. The whole region is
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rich with bright stars. Launch coming up tomorrow. A Falcon
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nine from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. SpaceX is sending
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up Starlink Internet satellites. The Sun has been active lately.
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We're seeing high magnetic complexity across several sunspot groups with
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a heightened chance of auroras tonight. For those in northern latitudes.
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Coastal areas are experiencing spring tides right now, the highest
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highs and lowest lows of the month. The Sun and
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Moon are aligned, pulling together on Earth's oceans. NASA's Artemus
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two moon rocket has arrived at the launch paddock 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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Heads up for asteroid fans. Twenty twenty two. OC three
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passes Earth in about three days, about one point three
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lunar distances away. It's about the size of a house,
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harmless but fun to track. Right now, twelve humans are
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living in space aboard the iss Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb,
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and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station passes overhead
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several times a day. If you know when to look,
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This is sleep from Space, your AI curated guide to
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the Cosmos. Sources include NASA and OAA, and space news
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from around the world. Good Night,
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