Feb. 27, 2026

Six Planets Align - February 27, 2026

Six Planets Align - February 27, 2026
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A planetary parade graces the 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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Callarogashark media. This is sleep from space. The constellation Gemini

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rides high tonight. Find the two bright stars Castor and

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Pollocks above Orion. Castor is actually six stars in one,

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though you'll need a telescope to split them. Rocket watchers.

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SpaceX launches a Falcon nine later today from Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida,

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carrying Starlink Internet satellites. NASA chief Jared Isaacman on Saturday

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ruled out a March launch for Artemis two, the first

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crude flyby mission to the Moon in more than fifty years,

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citing technical issues. Workers detected a problem with helium flow

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to the massive SLS rocket that will take the March

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launch window out of consideration. Isaac Mann said in a

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post on x I understand people are disappointed by this development.

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Solar cycle twenty five continues ramping up. Current conditions show

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high magnetic complexity, with C class flares possible Aurora chances

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tonight moderate. An asteroid called twenty twenty six D six

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is passing by in about three days. It's about thirty

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to fifty feet across, passing about two point zero lunar

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distances away. No danger, just a cosmic neighbor dropping by

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a planetary parade, graces the sky this week. Mercury and

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Venus hug the western horizon after sunset, while Jupiter and

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Saturn arc overhead. With a telescope, you can add Uranus

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and Neptune to your count. Sleep from Space uses AI

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to gather and narrate information from NASA and spaceflight news

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sources around the world. Sweet Dreams