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Perseids from Perseus

This was a good year for the Perseids meteor shower. A key reason was the Moon was absent from lighting up Earth's night sky so that more meteors were visible than usual. Where was the Moon? It was busy visiting the Sun. Near the Perseids peak, the Moon moved directly in front of the Sun and created a total solar eclipse visible from Greenland and Spain. The Perseids occur when the Earth collides with a stream of Sun-orbiting debris cast off by Comet Swift-Tuttle. Perseid meteors, although typically only the size of a sand grain, tend to be fast and bright because Swift-Tuttle's debris orbits the Sun in a direction partly opposite Earth's orbital motion. In the featured image compilation, accumulated over several nights from Jizerka in the Czech Republic, the Perseids meteor streaks can be traced back to a single location on the sky -- its radiant in Perseus. Gallery: Perseids Meteor Shower of 2026

Próximos lanzamientos

Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 19/08/2026 01:35 — LandSpace
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-50 19/08/2026 05:45 — SpaceX
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-39 20/08/2026 17:19 — SpaceX
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-20 22/08/2026 09:25 — SpaceX
Long March 5 | Chang'e 7 24/08/2026 02:00 — China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

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