Dec. 28, 2025
Daily Space Report - December 28, 2025 - Rising Sunspots and Aurora Possible
Tonight's space report: 301 active sunspot regions; Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M 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.
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Calaruga Shark Media. You're listening to sleep from space. Here
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is your quiet space report, A short, gentle update on
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the Sun, the auroras, and the sky above. In rocket News.
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Russian Federal Space Agency ross Cosmos plans to launch a
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soyu's two point one veho on Freggitt m later today
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from Vostokhni Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation, carrying satellites into orbit.
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After liftoff, the mission will proceed to orbit. Jupiter dominates
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the evening sky in the southeast after sunset, shining brilliantly
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as the brightest object besides the Moon. Saturn glows steadily
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to the southwest, a yellowish point of light that sets
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a few hours after dark. Both are perfect for telescope
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viewing this week. Here's the space weather. The Sun is
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getting more active right now. There are multiple sunspot groups
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visible with high magnetic complexity. This means we could see
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sea class flares in the next day or so. Because
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of this, there is a moderate chance of auroras, especially
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across higher latitudes. If you're in the northern US or Canada,
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check the northern horizon after dark. You might catch some
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faint green glow. The mighty hunter, Orion returns to the
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evening sky. Find his belt three stars in a perfect line,
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and look for the fuzzy patch below the belt. That's
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the Orion nebula, a stellar nursery one three twenty hundred
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light years away. That's today's space report. As you rest tonight,
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remember that Earth moves quietly through space, wrapped in its
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protective magnetic field, while rockets launch and distant worlds wait
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to be explored. Sleep well,
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