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Five-planet parade, new Moon & CMEs bring aurora chances - Space News (Jun 14, 2026)
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- Jun 14, 2026
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Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: Five-planet parade, new Moon - Skywatchers get a rare June 14, 2026 lineup: all five naked-eye planets spread across the evening sky, timed with a new Moon for unusually dark conditions. It’s a prime night for viewing the Milky Way and bright summer star patterns without moonlight washing out faint targets. CMEs bring aurora chances - Solar eruptions from June 9 and 11 are expected to brush Earth around June 13–14, raising the odds of minor to moderate geomagnetic storms. That could mean brighter auroras and small operational impacts for satellites, radio, and power systems, with the strongest effects depending on the storm’s magnetic orientation. Starlink launch, Falcon 9 milestone - A mid-June Starlink mission highlights how routine launches have become as Falcon 9 approaches roughly 650 flights and another booster recovery. The launch cadence underscores the scale of reusable rocketry and the rapid growth of large satellite constellations in low Earth orbit. Artemis II, Roman launch date - NASA’s Artemis II is presented as the return of crewed missions beyond low Earth orbit, sending astronauts on a lunar flyby as part of a longer-term Moon program. In parallel, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has a confirmed late-August launch date, setting the stage for major dark-energy and exoplanet surveys. Black-hole planets, JWST soot - New research suggests planet…