Feb. 28, 2026
Six Planets Align - February 28, 2026
Six planets form a rare arc across the evening sky this week. Plus tonight's space weather and more.
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Calorogus Shark media. Good evening. This is sleep from space.
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Gemini dominates the overhead sky after dark. The Twins' heads
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are marked by Castor and Polyx, two of the brightest
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stars in the winter sky. Pollux is slightly brighter with
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an orange tint. 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. Asteroid twenty thousand
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twenty six d x six, comparable to a city bus,
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will fly past Earth in the next couple of days,
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about two point zero lunar distances away. Completely safe, but
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a nice reminder of our busy solar system. A Firefly
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Alpha is heading to space tomorrow. Firefly Aerospace launches from
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Vandenberg Space for four California, sending up its payload. The
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Sun's been putting on a show with high magnetic complexity
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right now. There's a moderate chance you might see auroras
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if you're far enough north face north after nine pm
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for the best view. NASA chief Jared isaac Man on
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Saturday ruled out a March launch for Artemis two, the
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first crewed flyby mission to the Moon in more than
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fifty years. Citing technical issues, workers detected a problem with
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helium flow to the massive SLS rocket that will take
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the March launch window out of consideration. Isaac Man said
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in a post on x I understand people are disappointed
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by this development. This episode was assembled using AI pulling
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from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening, sleep Well,
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