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The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars ...
August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.
Known as one of the top meteor showers of the year because of its many bright shooting stars, the Perseid shower started ...
Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...
Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...
While the two meteor showers might not stand out as the most spectacular of the season on their own, their combined peak ...
Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...
This week, you can experience magic as two meteor showers, the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids, reach their peak. These celestial events offer a chance to see shooting stars ...
August’s full moon, known as the Sturgeon Moon, rises on Saturday night, glowing low in the southeast shortly after sunset.
AMS says the best time to see any meteor shower is between midnight and dawn. According to NASA, the Perseids can be seen as ...