Aurora Watch Tonight - March 25, 2026
Tonight: Artemis 2 returns to the pad for April launch attempt. 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.
0:03 Calorogus Shark Media. Welcome to sleep from space. Here's something to think about. Neutron stars are so dense that a tea spoon of their material would weigh about six billion tons on Earth. One of the many asteroids in our neighborhood, twenty twenty six FM three swings by today at about as big as a pickup truck. It'll pass closer than the Moon about sixty one percent of the lunar distance. No threat, just a cosmic passerby. Look east for Leo rising, one of the zodiac's most recognizable shapes. The sickle of stars forms the lion's head, with Regulus at the bottom marking his heart. Mars remains bright in the evening sky, while Venus emerges as the brilliant evening star low in the west after sunset. NASA is again revising its plan to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustainable presence there, with the launch of the Artemis two crew around the Moon coming A bright, gibbous moon dominates the evening.
1:20 For darker skies wait until the early morning hours after it sets. There are currently twelve astronauts aboard the International Space Station, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They are traveling at over seventeen thousand miles per hour, watching sixteen sunrises every day. Tonight's report was compiled by AI from NASA Launch Library and Spaceflight News. See you Tomorrow night,
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