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The Perseid meteor shower, considered the best meteor shower of the year, according to NASA, peaks on Aug. 12 and 13.
Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...
Mercury is quickly closing in on the Beehive Cluster in the evening sky. The small planet stands less than 3° from the gaggle of young stars this evening. If you’re quick and have a clear ...
Venus and Jupiter meet in the morning sky on Aug. 12. Catch their dazzling conjunction just before sunrise with the crescent ...
The moon's 7% illuminated disk could prove tricky to spot against the evening sky and will swiftly set alongside Regulus, a little over an hour after the sun. If you do spot the moon, you may ...
They rise at about 10 p.m. LDT and are highest in the sky around 3 a.m. LDT. They will reach maximum activity on July 30 -- the same night as the Alpha Capricornids, according to AMS. But they are ...
While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has fended off the light glow that washes out starry nights.
Saturn will be a fixture in the evening sky until the middle of March 2026, when it will pass close to the sun from our perspective, rendering it temporarily lost from view.