April 19, 2026
Space Rock in the Neighborhood — April 19, 2026
Three planets gather in a rare triple conjunction this week. Plus space weather, launches, 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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Calarogashark media. Welcome to Sleep from space. Three planets gather
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in a rare triple conjunction this week. Saturn, Mercury, and
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Mars all crowd into the same patch of sky before dawn.
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Look low in the east about thirty minutes before sunrise.
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For this fleeting meetup, NASA will roll the largest section
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of the agency's Space Launch System rocket, which will launch
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the second Crude Artemis mission out of the agency's mischewed
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assembly facility in New Orleans on Monday, April twentieth. What's
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called the top four fifths of the Space Launch System
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core stage, the section containing the liquid hydrogen tank Liquid
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Blue Origin has a new glen on the pad at
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Cape Canaveral Space four Station, Florida, set to fly later today.
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Neap tides are in effect the gentlest tides of the month.
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With the Sun and Moon at right angles, their pulls
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partially cancel out one of the many asteroids in our neighborhood.
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Twenty twenty six HJ swings by today at about the
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size of a car. It'll pass closer than the Moon
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about twenty nine percent of the lunar distance. No threat,
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just a cosmic passerby quick solar update. The Sun is
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quite active, with numerous sunspot groups visible. That means a
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moderate chance of northern lights tonight. For those in northern latitudes.
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Look north after dark. If skies are clear, look for
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the half moon high in the sky this evening. After
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it sets around midnight, the sky turns nice and dark.
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Sleep from Space uses AI to gather and narrate information
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from NASA and spaceflight news sources around the world. Sweet
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