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How to Watch the Year’s Best Meteor Shower, the Perseids
The Perseids are known for being especially swift and bright, and in a good year viewers can expect to spot between 50 and 100 meteors in an hour. This year, with moonlight hampering dark skies, fewer than half the usual number of meteors could be visible. Still, 25 shooting stars an hour is worth waking up early for.
The Perseid meteor shower is caused by Earth crossing through the orbital path of the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, producing a ...
The San Diego Dark Sky Festival is returning to Julian on August 16th, featuring educational activities, panel discussions, ...
Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere).
According to NASA's monitoring, the usually strong rate of 60–100 meteors per hour could fall to just 10–20 per hour as the ...
WANE 15 on MSN3d
Party in the Perseids: A party for the stars at Science CentralF ORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Science Central is hosting a party for the stars. Party in the Perseids will be hosted on Saturday ...
Digital Camera World on MSN3d
A solar flare just upped the odds for photographing the Northern Lights this weekend – and the Perseids are starting to heat up tooThe coronal mass ejection hurled from an active sunspot launched a bit sidewise, which lowers the odds of seeing the effects ...
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