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What to know about the Perseids and when to view the 2025 meteor shower
The meteor shower is expected to peak from Aug. 12-13, although moonlight will impact meteor visibility. The moon will be 84% full during the peak. NASA says the best time to view the Perseids is early in the morning, before dawn, in the Northern Hemisphere. Sometimes, however, the meteors can be seen at night as early as 10 p.m.
Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...
Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets in our solar system, should be widely visible for much of August in the northern ...
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope and Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea discovered a “fossil” of our early ...
The team studied 47 young meteor showers. Most are the crumbs of two types of comets: Jupiter-family comets from the Scattered Disk of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune and long-period comets from the ...
We might still find more interstellar objects, as the Solar System could cross one million streams of them. However, if we want something from Alpha Centauri, we need to think smaller.
The Perseids, considered by astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year ... It was discovered in 1862 by Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle and last visited the inner solar system in 1992.
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