Jan. 19, 2026

its payload Launch - January 19, 2026

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Tonight: Rollout Brings the Dawn of Artemis II. Plus what to see in the night sky.

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Calaruga Shark Media.

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Welcome to sleep from space. Solar activity is up. Multiple

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sunspot regions show high magnetic complexity, so M class flares

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are possible. Aurora watchers in Canada and the northern US

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might catch some green on the horizon tonight. This is

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peak Orion season. The constellation rides high in the south

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with brilliant series following below. Look overhead for the Pleiades,

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a small fuzzy patch that resolves into six or seven stars.

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With good eyesight, a small space rock named twenty twenty

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six BT makes a close approach today. It's about the

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size of a house, passing roughly two times the Moon's distance.

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Scientists will be watching launch coming up tomorrow. An electron

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from Mahea pinin New Zealand. Rocket Lab is sending up

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its payload Waigh shelves NASA's Artemis. The second Moon Rocket

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has arrived at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Four

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astronauts will fly around the Moon as early as February sixth,

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the first crude lunar mission in over fifty years. Thanks

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for listening, Sleep well,

its payload Launch - January 19, 2026

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