Gentle Giants of the Solar System — April 14, 2026

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. You're listening to Sleep from space. NASA will roll the largest section of the agency's Space Launch System rocket, which will launch the second Crude Artemis mission out of the agency's MISCHEWD assembly facility in New Orleans on Monday, April twentieth. What's called the top four fifths of the Space Launch System core stage, the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank liquid. Right now, twelve humans are living in space aboard the International Space Station Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station passes overhead several times a day if you know when to look. The moon is a slim crescent in the western sky after sunset, setting early and leaving dark skies for the rest the night. SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space four Station, Florida, set to fly later today. The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic. An asteroid called twenty thirteen GM three is passing by today. It's about the size of a small building, passing closer than the Moon. About sixty seven percent of the lunar distance. No danger, just a cosmic neighbor dropping by. Venus continues its rain as the evening star,

1:36 shining so bright it casts faint shadows on dark nights. Mercury peaks above the western horizon briefly after sunset. The sun is putting on a show for solar observers. Lots of active sunspot regions right now, which means the chance of solar flares stays elevated. Aurora watchers in the far north might catch a faint glow on the horizon tonight. Sleep from Space uses AI to gather and narrate information from NASA and Spaceflight