There are several major meteor showers to enjoy every year at various times, with some more active than others. For example, April's Lyrids are expected to produce about 15 meteors an hour at their peak for observers viewing ...
Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2010
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Every three years, the same phase of the moon happens on about the same date of each month. The annual Perseid meteor shower of August last happened in a moonless sky in 2007, so this year if the sky is clear when the Perseids ...
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2010
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Splat! There goes another bug on the windshield. Anyone who's ever driven down a country lane has seen it happen. A fast moving car, a cloud of multiplying insects, and a big disgusting mess.
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009
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Obviously, you've seen timelapse videos of the night sky because we share them here on Universe Today all the time. But you've probably not seen a video like this one before. This one isn't a timelapse, and you'll see the ...
Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2016
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Time-lapse images captured during the peak of this summer's Perseid meteor shower have been released by the SkySentinel project, in which students at Florida Institute of Technology monitor the night sky from a network of ...
Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2016
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stronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 28 flight engineer, tweeted this image from the International Space Station in August, 2011 with the following caption: "What a `Shooting Star' looks like from space, taken yesterday during ...
Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2015
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A light show—the natural kind—will be playing in suburban Chicago.
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2013
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This year’s Perseid meteor shower, already in progress, continues until about August 24th. The peak of activity is expected to occur around midday on August 12th, with a possible all-sky maximum of perhaps 50–100 ...
Space Exploration
Aug 8, 2012
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Amateur astronomers across the UK are preparing to tweet the world’s first mass participation meteor star party, as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). Led by Newbury Astronomical Society, the Twitter ...
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009
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