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The Perseid rain. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The Perseid Shower and the Moon's conjunctions with Saturn and separately with Mars and Jupiter: August 2024 Sky Viewing Tips from NASA

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For the advanced, you can watch the Lagoon Nebula - a star formation area in the Sagittarius constellation - throughout the month
NASA image showing the comet's predicted path in late January and early February. Credit: NASA

The Green Comet C/2022 E3: How to watch the rare visitor

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Green Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will approach Earth on February 1st and, although pale in the northern sky, will be seen near the carts/bears before sailing into deep space for millions of years if at all
A meteor shower as photographed with a long exposure (the long lines are the paths of the stars throughout the time of the photograph, the lines crossing them are meteors. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Tonight is the peak of the Perseid rain - a spectacular show is expected

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What is special this year is that the moon is almost not in the sky, three days before the moon reaches its first quarter and sets well before midnight, local time, so it will be possible to see many meteors.
Bolide - fireball - was photographed on the night between August 12 and 13, 2020. Photo: Nadav Rotenberg, chairman of the Israeli Astronomical Society

The fireball that lit up the southern sky yesterday - at the height of the Perseid shower

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Comet NEOWISE as photographed from the Parker spacecraft, on July 5, 2020, when it reached the closest point in its orbit to the Sun. Photo: NASA

Starting this week, comet NEOWISE can be observed in the evening hours

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An illustration of the appearance of Comet Omoamua based on observations by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

A new formation theory explains the interstellar object Omoamoa

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Comet Borisov, at its closest point to the Sun, December 2019. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

The interstellar comet Borisov passed the Sun and accelerated

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comet. Illustration: shutterstock

A newly discovered comet is likely a visitor from outside the solar system

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Comet Hale-Bop has a blue dove tail and a curved dust tail. Astronomy for Beginners, Andy Roberts, CC BY

In the coming days there is a chance that we will be able to see a comet without a telescope

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Meteor shower in the small crater (photo: Meschit Golan)

The Ministry of Science and the Space Agency will hold events on the occasion of the Perseid shower on Sunday

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An artist's impression of the first interstellar asteroid Oumuamua, a unique object discovered on October 19, 2017 by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. Image: NASA

The cigar-shaped object that arrived outside the solar system is an extinct comet, not an asteroid or an alien spacecraft

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Illustration illustrating the exit of meteors from the direction of a group of twins. From a NASA YouTube video

The Geminid shower will peak on the night between Wednesday and Thursday

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comet. Illustration: shutterstock

My life as a comet hunter

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Caroline Herschel. From Wikipedia

Caroline Herschel acquired an education despite her mother's opposition, helped her brother William and recorded astronomical discoveries herself

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A three and a half hour observation of the 2014 Leonid meteor shower. Photo: Mikhail Reva (REVA), Flickr

hot or cold? Some questions about meteors and meteorites

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Wood engraving from 1799 depicting a view of the Leonid meteor from the sea. Public Domain

This year's Leonids: moderate meteor shower. The compensation - the moon will not interfere

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The white stripes stretching across are stars that have moved from their position during the long exposure due to the movement of the Earth. The meteors are the vertical lines. Archive photo: Einat Zbirin

Mass show - thousands came to watch the meteor shower at Mitzpe Ramon

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fire ball. Illustration: shutterstock

NASA: August's Perseid shower - the meteor shower that produces the most fireballs

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Asteroid attack on Earth and Moon. Illustration: shutterstock

Oceans from the sky / David Jewitt and Edward D. Young

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The sky map shows the radiant of the Lyrid meteor at dawn on April 23, 2015

Tonight (22/4) is the peak of the meteor shower for the fairs

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Coals from a rocky comet: the Geminids shower, December 13, 2013, multiple image compilation. Photo: NASA

120 meteors per hour: Tonight and tomorrow the Geminids meteor shower show

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These images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) are of the nucleus of Comet C/2013 A1 or Siding Spring during the comet's transit near Mars on October 19, 2014. Comet Siding Spring is on its first trip near the Sun and came from the Oort Cloud at the outer edge of the system the sun The image composed of two versions of two of the best photographs of the comet by HiRISE, in the upper part the images from dynamic range, show the nucleus and the bright halo near the nucleus. At the bottom of the image you see two clarified versions of the outer halo, in which the inner area is saturated. The pictures on the left and right were taken nine minutes apart. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

The nucleus of the Siding Spring comet that passed by Mars is smaller than expected

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Comet Siding Spring in the sky of Mars. A raw (night) image taken by NASA's Curiosity robotic vehicle on the surface of Mars. From a NASA tweet about an hour after the comet's approach to Mars, 19/10/2014

The first raw image of Comet Siding Spring from Mars

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Illustration of the passage of the Siding Spring comet near Mars. Source: NASA

A ball of light in the sky of Mars

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A supermoon over the Timna Valley. Photo: shutterstock

a larger than usual full moon on the occasion of Tu Bab; May eclipse the Perseid meteor shower

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