Daily Space Report - December 16, 2025 - Rising Sunspots and Aurora Possible

0:03 Calaruga Shark Media. Welcome to Sleep from Space. This is your daily space report. Close your eyes if you'd like, and let's drift through today's space, weather and sky events. On the Solar front, the sun is getting more active right now. There are multiple sunspot groups visible with high magnetic complexity. This means we could see C class flares in the next day or so. For Aurora watchers, Tonight looks promising. There's a moderate chance the Northern Lights could be visible across Canada and the Northern tier of States. Face north away from city lights and give your eyes time to adjust. Right now, there are twelve people living and working aboard the International Space Station, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson.

0:56 The station continues its quiet orbits circling Earth every ninety minutes two hundred and fifty miles above us. Look east after dark and find three stars in a neat row Orion's famous belt. Above it, the red super giant Beetlejuice glows with a warm orange hue. This is one of winter's most recognizable sights. The evening sky features two gas giants. Jupiter rises in the east after sunset, you can't miss its brilliant white glow. Saturn is dimmer but unmistakable in the southwest, setting a few hours after dark. That's the update for today. The sun, the planets, and our spacecraft continue their slow, steady motion above you. Let that thought carry you gently towards sleep.