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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object ever recorded. It was first spotted on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. The designation 3I/ATLAS marks it as the third interstellar object in our solar system. Its orbit is hyperbolic with an eccentricity of about 6.2, meaning it is unbound and will…
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September 21, 2025 – Partial Solar Eclipse visible mainly from the Southern Hemisphere, with up to 80% Sun obscured over the South Pacific, including Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, and parts of Antarctica. February 17, 2026 – Annular “ring of fire” over Antarctica, with annularity lasting about 2 minutes at maximum, while a partial eclipse will…
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Aug 4, 2025: Blue Origin New Shepard NS-34 launches from Site One, West Texas, on a suborbital tourism flight carrying a private crew of six, Blue Origin’s 14th crewed mission. Aug 4, 2025: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 10-30 from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, delivering a batch of 22 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, adding…
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