It Is All Moving, Always — April 17, 2026

0:03 Calarogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome 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 Michewed 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. 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. Look west after sunset for Venus, our brilliant neighbor. If you're quick, you might spot mercury below it close to the horizon in the fading twilight. Rocket Launch Alert SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon nine tomorrow from Vandenberg Space Force based California, carrying the Starlink Internet Satellites mission. Look west after sunset to catch the thin crescent Moon. It'll set early, leaving the rest of the night nice and dark. A small space rock named twenty twenty six GM one makes a close approach tomorrow. It's roughly the length of a bus,

1:34 passing roughly three times the Moon's distance. Scientists will be watching. This is Sleep from Space, your AI curated guide to the Cosmos. Sources include NASA and space news from around the world. Goodnight,