Feb. 21, 2026
Six Planets Align - February 21, 2026
Six planets form a rare arc across the evening sky this week. Plus tonight's space weather and more.
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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Calarogu Shark Media. Welcome to Sleep from space. Look overhead
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for Gemini's twin stars Castor and Pollux. They mark the
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heads of the twin brothers, with fainter stars trailing below
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like their bodies, stretching across the Milky Way on the
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Solar Front. High magnetic complexity in several active regions, northern
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lights are possible tonight heightened chance, especially across Canada and
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the Northern States. Six planets form a rare arc across
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the evening sky this week after sunset. Look west to
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east to spot Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune,
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though the outer two need a telescope. A Falcon nine
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lifts off later today from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
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SpaceX is putting Starlink Internet satellites into orbit. NASA targeting
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March six for Artemis two launch. NASA is targeting a
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launch for Artemis two after completing a countdown test with
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few problems. There are currently twelve astronauts aboard the ISS,
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including Oleg Kananenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They're
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traveling at seventeen eighty five hundred miles per hour, watching
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sixteen sunrises every day. An asteroid called twenty twenty six
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DK is passing by tomorrow. It's roughly the length of
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a bus, passing roughly two times the Moon's distance. No danger,
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just a cosmic neighbor dropping by. Sleep from space uses
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AI to gather and narrate information from NASA and spaceflight
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news sources around the world. Sweet Dreams
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