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How to see a double meteor shower on Tuesday night with a chance of fireballs
Whether you're in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, you can catch two different types of meteor …
Jessica Orwig
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How to see the year's best meteor shower this weekend, with fireballs, colorful trails, and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction
The Perseids can be the best meteor shower of the year, thanks to bright fireballs and long colorfu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Here's what fireballs are and how to best spot them at the Perseid meteor shower's peak
Explore the celestial spectacle of fireballs during the Perseid meteor shower, set to peak this wee…
Hannah Getahun,Sebastian Cahill
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The 2023 Perseid meteor shower will peak this weekend, bringing up to 100 fireballs per hour. Here's where to watch.
The Perseid meteor shower will peak August 13, 2023, and conditions to see will be good this year. …
Marianne Guenot
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The Quadrantids are the first meteor shower of 2024. Here's where to look and the best time to see it.
The Quadrantids are the first meteor shower of 2024 — and the best, per NASA. Here's where to look …
Jessica Orwig
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2 meteor showers will peak Monday and last into August. One could produce dazzling fireballs.
The Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers are predicted to peak on July 31. Here's …
Hannah Getahun
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The Perseids meteor shower peaks on Wednesday and Thursday. NASA calls it the best of the year.
The Perseids, considered the year's best meteor shower, will peak starting Wednesday. Here's how to…
Aylin Woodward
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The Perseid meteor shower, which NASA says is the best of the year, peaks Tuesday night. Here's how to catch it.
The Perseids meteor shower, considered the year's best, peaks Tuesday night. Here's how to watch th…
Susie Neilson
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The Lyrid meteor shower will leave 'glowing dust trains' across the sky on Thursday. Here's how to watch.
Every April, Earth passes through a trail of debris left behind by a comet. As debris enters our at…
Aylin Woodward
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The last supermoon of 2022 will outshine NASA's favorite meteor shower Thursday night. To see both, you need a dark spot and good timing.
NASA says the Perseids fireballs are the best meteor shower. The supermoon may outshine them, but y…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Stunning pictures from the Perseid meteor shower
Meteors streak across the sky over a Roman theatre in the ruins of Acinipio, during the Perseid met…
Dina Spector
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The Quadrantids brings bright fireball meteors to the sky this weekend. Here's how to catch the first meteor shower of the decade.
The best way to maximize your potential of seeing meteors, according to American Meteor Society, is…
Aylin Woodward
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How To Watch The Perseid Meteor Shower
NASA will also be live streaming the event from their sky-pointed cameras at Marshall Space Flight …
Dina Spector
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Tonight's Perseid meteor shower will create up to 100 meteors an hour - plus 'moon flashes'
It's difficult for astronomers to spot a meteor hitting the moon - it takes a good telescope and a …
Kelly Dickerson
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The most stunning images of the Perseid meteor shower from around the world
This year the Perseid meteor shower peaked early in the morning on Thursday, Aug. 13, and it coinci…
Kelly Dickerson
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Missed The Perseid Meteor Shower? This Time-Lapse Video Is Even Better Than Seeing It Yourself
While this does show a meteor breaking apart, the resulting expanding ring is called a "persistent …
Jennifer Welsh
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PHOTOS: Meteors Streak Across The Night Sky At 100,000 MPH
The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked on August 11 and 12 as Earth passed through a stream of deb…
Dina Spector
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend, with hundreds of multicolored shooting stars. Here's how to spot them.
The asteroid Phaethon left behind the trail of dust that's responsible for the Geminids show severa…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Taurids meteor shower sends fireballs streaking across the sky this week. Here's how to spot them.
The Taurids come in two different streams, which coincide this week. The Southern Taurids are debri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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What you're really seeing during a meteor shower
Now some meteor showers are more spectacular than others, giving us anywhere from a few to over a h…