Daily Space Report - December 18, 2025 - Rising Sunspots and Aurora Possible
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RSS Feed Tonight's space report: 270 active sunspot regions; Blue Origin New Shepard launch later today. Calm narration to help you drift off to sleep.
Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other soruces.
0:03 Calaruga Shark Media. You're listening to sleep from space. Here is your quiet space report, A short, gentle update on the Sun, the auroras, and the sky above. A beautiful crescent moon hangs in the west this evening. Once it sets, the sky opens up for some great stargazing. The mighty hunter Orion returns to the evening sky. Find his belt three stars in a perfect line, and look for the fuzzy patch below the belt. That's the Orion nebula, a stellar nursery one three hundred light years away. For those who watch the skies. Blue Origin is preparing for a new Shepherd launch later today from corn Ranch Van Horn, Texas.
0:52 The mission will deploy satellites into orbit, and if conditions allow, the mission will proceed to orbit two planets steel the show tonight. Jupiter, the king of planets, shines brilliantly in the east. Saturn hangs lower in the southwest, its rings visible even through a small telescope. Both set by late evening. That's today's space report. As you rest tonight, remember that Earth moves quietly through space, wrapped in its protective magnetic field, while rockets launch and distant worlds wait to be explored sleep well