Dec. 16, 2025
Daily Space Report - December 16, 2025 - Rising Sunspots and Aurora Possible
Tonight's space report: 274 active sunspot regions; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H3-22 launch tomorrow. Calm narration to help you drift off to sleep.
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Calaruga Shark Media.
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Welcome to Sleep from Space. This is your daily space report.
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Close your eyes if you'd like, and let's drift through
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today's space, weather and sky events. On the Solar front,
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the sun is getting more active right now. There are
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multiple sunspot groups visible with high magnetic complexity. This means
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we could see C class flares in the next day
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or so. For Aurora watchers, Tonight looks promising. There's a
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moderate chance the Northern Lights could be visible across Canada
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and the Northern tier of States. Face north away from
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city lights and give your eyes time to adjust. Right now,
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there are twelve people living and working aboard the International
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Space Station, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson.
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The station continues its quiet orbits circling Earth every ninety
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minutes two hundred and fifty miles above us. Look east
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after dark and find three stars in a neat row
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Orion's famous belt. Above it, the red super giant Beetlejuice
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glows with a warm orange hue. This is one of
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winter's most recognizable sights. The evening sky features two gas giants.
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Jupiter rises in the east after sunset, you can't miss
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its brilliant white glow. Saturn is dimmer but unmistakable in
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the southwest, setting a few hours after dark. That's the
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update for today. The sun, the planets, and our spacecraft
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continue their slow, steady motion above you. Let that thought
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carry you gently towards sleep.
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