April 30, 2026
The Sun Is Restless Tonight — April 30, 2026
Arianespace Ariane 64 launch coming up. Plus space news and stargazing.
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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Calarugus Shark Media, Hello and welcome to sleep from space.
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Something to ponder. A day on Venus is longer than
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its year. It takes two hundred and forty three earth
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days to rotate once, but only two hundred and twenty
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five earth days to orbit the sun. Venus blazes in
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the western sky after sunset. The brightest object in the
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night sky besides the Moon, Mercury, makes a rare appearance
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low on the horizon. Just after dusk, the maiden Virgo
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climbs the eastern sky. Her brightest star, Spica, gleams with
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a bluish tint. Nearby. The Virgo cluster holds thousands of
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galaxies invisible to the eye but awe inspiring to contemplate.
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An Ariane sixty four rocket is set to launch later
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today from Guiana Space Center, French. Guiana. Ariane Space is
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behind this one up on the International Space Station. Twelve
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people are orbiting Earth right now, including Oleg Kananenko, Nikolai Chubb,
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and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Every ninety minutes, they circle the
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planet two hundred and fifty miles overhead. The Sun has
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been active lately, with several sunspot groups dotting its surface.
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Solar flares are possible over the next day or two.
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For now, aurora chances are moderate for those in far
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northern latitudes. New observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, reveal
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that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth,
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suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may
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be universal across different types of celestial bodies. Sleep from
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Space uses AI to gather and narrate information from NASA
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and spaceflight news sources around the world. Sweet Dreams
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