Astronomy News 3 August 2025

Don’t Miss October 2025’s Super Hunter’s Moon – A Dazzling Full Moon Spectacle

The October 6, 2025 full Moon peaks at 11:48 p.m. Eastern Time (03:48 UTC on October 7). It is a supermoon near perigee, about 6–7% larger and 13% brighter than a typical full Moon, and the first full supermoon of 2025. The Moon will be visible from anywhere it’s nighttime, with no special location required for viewing. The Moon’s disk will be 100% illuminated, appearing as a perfect luminous circle, with a near-full phase from October 5–7. Saturn will lie about 3°–4° from the Moon around October 6–7, with magnitude 0.6, visible near Pisces. This October 2025 full Moon is

10 August 2025

Spectacular “Blood Moon” Eclipse: Everything to Know About September 2025’s Full Moon

On September 7, 2025, the Moon reaches full phase around 18:09 UTC and participates in a total lunar eclipse. Totality lasts about 82–83 minutes, making it the longest total lunar eclipse since 2022. About 6.2 billion people (roughly 77% of the world’s population) could witness at least part of the eclipse. During totality the Moon will glow rusty-orange or red as Earth’s atmosphere scatters blue light and bends red wavelengths into its shadow. September 7’s full Moon is commonly called the Corn Moon in 2025, reflecting the corn harvest of late summer. The eclipse happens about 2.7 days before lunar

10 August 2025

Astronomy · Eclipse · Moon · Science · Space Events

July 10 2025’s ‘Buck Moon’ Will Be the Farthest‑From‑the‑Sun, Low‑Riding Full Moon of the Decade—Here’s the Exact Time, Best Viewing Tricks & Pro Photo Hacks You Need

Don’t Miss the August 9, 2025 “Sturgeon Moon” – Two Nights of Lunar Spectacle, Cosmic Meaning & Global Traditions

Peak illumination occurs on Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 3:55 a.m. EDT (07:55 GMT), with the Moon opposite the Sun in Capricornus near Deneb Algedi and fully illuminated toward Earth. The full Moon will be visible for two nights, rising near sunset on August 8 and August 9, with New York City at about 8:03 p.m. on Aug 8 and 8:32 p.m. on Aug 9. It is not a supermoon; the 2025 supermoons are Harvest Moon on October 7, Beaver Moon on November 5, and Cold Moon on December 4. On August 12 the Moon will pass within about 3.5°

9 August 2025

Astronomy · Full Moon · Global Traditions · Lunar Events · Night Sky

Skywatch Alert: Perseid Meteors, Sturgeon Moon & Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Dazzle Aug 9–10, 2025

The Perseid meteor shower is active August 9–10, 2025, with peak activity expected August 12–13 and up to 100 meteors per hour at peak under ideal dark skies. The full Moon, known as the Sturgeon Moon, reaches full on August 9, 2025 at 3:55 a.m. EDT (07:55 GMT) and will dominate the sky that night. The Perseids radiate from the constellation Perseus, which rises in the northeast after midnight, making the late-night to pre-dawn hours the best viewing time. Under the near-full Moon, bright Perseids can still streak across the sky, especially in the pre-dawn hours. Venus (-4 magnitude) and

9 August 2025

Astronomy · Full Moon · Meteor Showers · Planet Conjunctions · Skywatch Alerts

Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

A Saturn-mass exoplanet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 1–2 AU was directly imaged by JWST, potentially the closest directly imaged planet to its star at roughly 4 light-years from Earth. OpenAI released GPT-5 to about 700 million ChatGPT users, delivering significantly improved reasoning, problem-solving, domain expertise, and on-demand software coding with an enterprise focus. Italy’s Space Agency will have Italian scientific payloads aboard SpaceX’s Starship on its first Mars-bound missions, with Starship standing about 123 meters tall and a June engine test having ended in an explosion. On August 7, 2025, a solar storm consisting of M-class flares

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Astronomy · Climate Change · Science News · Technology

Don’t Miss This Weekend’s Sky Spectacle (Aug 8–9, 2025): Meteor Showers, a Full Moon, Planetary Dance & Aurora Alerts

The Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12–13, 2025, delivering 60–90 meteors per hour under dark skies, though a bright 84% full Moon may limit visibility to about 15 meteors per hour. The Eta Eridanid meteor shower peaks in the pre-dawn hours of August 8, 2025, at about 3 meteors per hour and appears to emanate from the Eridanus constellation. The Southern Delta Aquariids remain active through late July into August, producing only a few meteors per hour. The Full Sturgeon Moon reaches peak illumination on August 9, 2025, turning full at 3:55 a.m. EDT and rising in the southeast around

8 August 2025

Astronomy · Science · Sky Events · Space · Weekend Highlights

Space Race Heats Up – Major Launches, Lunar Breakthroughs, and Billion-Dollar Deals (7–8 Aug 2025)

Crew-10, comprising NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos’ Kirill Peskov, is targeting undocking on Aug 8, 2025, with splashdown off the California coast on Aug 9, 2025, marking the first crewed California splashdown under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program after a five-month science mission. China completed the first full-scale test of its crewed lunar lander ‘Lanyue’ at a Hebei facility, validating its ascent and descent engines for a 2030 crewed lunar mission and bolstering plans for a joint International Lunar Research Station with Russia by 2035. ULA’s Vulcan rocket is slated to perform its first

8 August 2025

Astronomy · Business Deals · Science News · Space · Space Exploration · Technology

Meteor Showers, Northern Lights & a Planet Parade – Aug 7–8 Night Sky Spectacle

The Perseids, active in early August and building toward their mid-August peak, can reach about 100 meteors per hour at maximum under dark skies, with bright blue fireballs from debris of Comet Swift–Tuttle. The 2025 Perseids peak will be hampered by moonlight: the Sturgeon Moon will be full on Aug 9, and the Moon will be 84–90% illuminated around Aug 11–13, washing out dim meteors and reducing the typical 50–75 meteors per hour to mostly bright fireballs. Eta Eridanids peak on the night of Aug 7–8, contributing about 3 meteors per hour at best. On Aug 7–8, Venus (mag −4.0)

7 August 2025

Astronomy · Meteor Showers · Night Sky Events · Northern Lights · Planetary Alignment

Cosmic Triple-Feature: Meteor Shower, Double Planet Show & Aurora Hopes on Aug 6–7, 2025

The Perseid meteor shower ramps up on August 6–7, 2025, with about 10–20 meteors per hour after local midnight under dark skies despite a bright Moon at roughly 95–99% full. The August full Moon on August 9, 2025 is called the Sturgeon Moon, and its brightness washes out faint meteors during early Perseid activity. The Eta Eridanids are expected to peak on the night of August 7–8, 2025, adding about 3 meteors per hour at best. Venus and Jupiter dominate the dawn sky on August 6–7, 2025, with Venus at magnitude −4.0 and Jupiter at −1.9, about 6° apart. Around

6 August 2025

Astronomy · Aurora · Meteor Showers · Planetary Events · Stargazing

Skywatch Alert: Meteors, Auroras & a Planetary Spectacle on Aug 5–6, 2025

The Perseid meteor shower is already ramping up for Aug 5–6, 2025, with an expected 10–20 meteors per hour under dark skies after midnight. Perseids are famous for fireballs, producing bright meteors that can blaze through moonlight despite lunar glare. The full Sturgeon Moon occurs on Aug 9, and the peak nights Aug 11–13 will have 84–90% moonlight, washing out dimmer meteors. Venus and Jupiter form a dawn pair before sunrise on Aug 5–6, with Venus at magnitude -4.0 and Jupiter at about -1.9, about 7–8° apart. The Venus–Jupiter pair will reach its closest approach around Aug 11–12, when they’re

5 August 2025

Astronomy · Aurora · Meteor Showers · Night Sky · Planetary Events

Planets Align, Meteors Fly, and Auroras? Skywatching Wonders on August 4–5, 2025

The Perseid meteor shower is active from mid-July to late August and is expected to peak around August 11–13 with up to about 100 meteors per hour under dark skies, though the full Sturgeon Moon on August 9 will brighten the sky and reduce counts to mostly the brightest fireballs. On August 4–5, the Moon is waxing gibbous at about 70–80% full, rising in the afternoon and setting in the pre-dawn, creating a darker window just before dawn for meteor watching. Observers could see roughly 10–20 meteors per hour in dark-sky conditions during late night to dawn on August 4–5.

4 August 2025

Astronomy · Auroras · Events · Meteors · Skywatching

Cosmic Light Show Alert: Meteors, Auroras & Planetary Surprises Dazzle Aug 3–4, 2025

On Aug 3–4, 2025, the Perseid meteor shower is active with after-midnight rates of about a dozen meteors per hour under dark skies, though the peak on Aug 12–13 could reach about 100 meteors per hour in ideal conditions. The Southern Delta Aquariids, peaked July 29–30 and active until Aug 12, produce about 25 meteors per hour at best, with observers in the Southern Hemisphere seeing them best. The Alpha Capricornids are active until Aug 12, typically yielding up to 5 meteors per hour but famed for slow, bright fireballs. NOAA forecasters expect quiet to unsettled geomagnetic conditions Aug 3,

3 August 2025

Astronomy · Auroras · Meteors · NASDAQ:IRDM · Night Sky · Planets

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