April 17, 2026
It Is All Moving, Always — April 17, 2026
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch coming up. Plus space news and stargazing.
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Calarogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Sleep from space.
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NASA will roll the largest section of the agency's Space
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Launch System rocket, which will launch the second Crude Artemis
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mission out of the agency's Michewed Assembly facility in New
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Orleans on Monday, April twentieth. What's called the top four
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fifths of the Space Launch System core stage, the section
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containing the liquid hydrogen tank liquid. The Sun is putting
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on a show for solar observers. Lots of active sunspot
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regions right now, which means the chance of solar flares
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stays elevated. Aurora watchers in the far North might catch
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a faint glow on the horizon tonight. Look west after
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sunset for Venus, our brilliant neighbor. If you're quick, you
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might spot mercury below it close to the horizon in
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the fading twilight. Rocket Launch Alert SpaceX is set to
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launch a Falcon nine tomorrow from Vandenberg Space Force based California,
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carrying the Starlink Internet Satellites mission. Look west after sunset
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to catch the thin crescent Moon. It'll set early, leaving
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the rest of the night nice and dark. A small
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space rock named twenty twenty six GM one makes a
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close approach tomorrow. It's roughly the length of a bus,
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passing roughly three times the Moon's distance. Scientists will be watching.
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This is Sleep from Space, your AI curated guide to
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the Cosmos. Sources include NASA and space news from around
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the world. Goodnight,
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