Meteors

This image taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope shows Comet Anka moving through its debris orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Minnesota

What is the level of risk from the "doomsday" asteroid swarm?

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A new study shows that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than predicted, so the risk level from it is lower.
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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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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fire ball. Illustration: shutterstock

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

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A bright meteor in the Giraffe Shower, May 24, 2014, as photographed from Duluth, Minnesota. Photo: Bob King, universe today

US report: Giraffe meteor shower was sparse but produced some nice slow meteors

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The position of the giraffe (Caneleopard) group in the sky, in a circle - the radiant position of May's giraffe meter. Photo: NASA/MEO/D. Moser using Starry Night Pro

Reminder: new meteor shower - the giraffe: the peak is expected tomorrow morning

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Meteors. Photo: NASA website

NASA: New meteor shower expected on May 24

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Pioneer 10. Photo: NASA

The history of the space program - Pioneer 10 to Jupiter

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Fireball over Murmansk, Russia, April 19, 2014. Screenshot from Russia Today broadcasts

Hedi Chelyabinsk: Another fireball exploded over Russia on April 19, this time there were no casualties

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The asteroid P/2013 R3 after its disintegration. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope recorded for the first time the disintegration of an asteroid into at least ten different pieces

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The flare caused by a car-sized object crashing into the moon. Photo: Jose Madedo

A meteorite crashed into the moon in an unprecedented blow to its brightness

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The Smith Cloud (in orange, at the bottom of the image) is on its way to collide with the Milky Way. Photo: Bill Zaxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Magnetic force fields rescue a large gas cloud that is on a collision course with the Milky Way

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A living creature discovered at a height of 27 kilometers in the atmosphere. Did it come from space? Photo: University of Sheffield

Living creatures from space or just drifting?

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Alien Invasion. Illustration: shutterstock

What to do in case the aliens come?

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astronaut. Illustration: shutterstock

The events of the Scientists' Night 2013 on Thursday throughout the country are marked by space

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Larger meteorites cause bright flashes of light when they hit Earth's atmosphere, such as this fireball captured during the Perseid shower on August 12, 2006. However, the bulk of meteoric activity is much less spectacular - about 10-40 tons of meteor dust enters the atmosphere ours every day. Photo: Pierre Martin

Tonight's Perseid-like meteor shower is only the tip of the iceberg. NASA maps tons of meteor dust in the sky every day

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Tag of an airborne mission to track the Dragonids in 2011

A ton of material was added to the Earth in one meteorite meter

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A hypothetical young planet orbiting a sun that has already cooled and is being constantly bombarded with materials from space - NASA illustration

Phosphorus, one of the essential elements for life, arrived on Earth through meteorites

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Simulation of a meteorite impact on the lunar surface, March 17, 2013. Image: NASA

NASA: A bright explosion on the moon was caused by a meteor impact weighing 30-40 kg

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Radiant Meter Hata Aquarids. Iorf NASA

Tonight after midnight - a rain shower of Aquarids

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Comet 2013 A1 near Mars, wrapping its tail around it. Forecast for the event that will take place in October 2014. Image: NASA

Collision path: A comet makes its way towards Mars

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Another angle of view of the meteor that hit Russia on Friday, 15/2/2013, from a YouTube video

"The meteorite explosion in Russia was 30 times more powerful than the bomb on Hiroshima"

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meteorites. Photo: Eric James NASA

meteor hunter

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An artificially colored image of one of the meteors in the Geminid shower in 2011. Photo: NASA

Tonight - the peak of the Geminid shower

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Simulating the migration of life between different solar systems. Illustration: Edward Belbruno, Princeton University

Did rocks from planets orbiting other stars seed life on Earth

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NASA visualization of the trail of the remains of Comet Swift Tuttle and why exactly on August 12 the Earth meets the stream of dust and gas that creates the Perseid shower

2012 Perseids Meteor Shower According to NASA: Three Days of Meteors, Crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter

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The Perseid Meteor 2009. From Wikipedia

Space week - from Curiosity landing on Mars to the meteor shower happening

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The central peak of the Copernicus Crater on the Moon. Photo: NASA's LROC spacecraft

The Earth's Moon - Summary of Findings Part 4

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Lunar crater from Wikipedia (Daedalus crater on the far side of the moon). No picture of the crater in question was published in the article

The Earth's Moon - Summary of Findings Part 3

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The location of the Lyrid meter. Illustration: Universe Today

Dozens of meteors in Lira - last night a record meteor shower

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The reddish moon Phobos as photographed in 2008 by the MRO spacecraft

Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars - summary of findings

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A sky map suitable for Israel on the night of October 8 and showing the northern horizon highlighting the constellations. A group of dragons is visible to the left of the middle of the picture, to the right of the group of the little bear (at the end of its tail is the North Star) to the left of a group of villains (which is part of the summer triangle), both groups are familiar and easy to identify. The image is from Stellarium, an open source astronomy software.

The Dragonids - A strong meteor storm is expected on October 8, starting at 21:00 p.m

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Warm season currents in Terra Sirenum

The Mars Survey Survey (MRO) - Summary of Findings - Part C

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Artist rendering of the UARS satellite. Image: NASA

The UARS satellite fell in Canada

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Ernst Friedrich Chaldani

Head-to-head with Newton: on Ernst Chaldani and the meteorites

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Mimas and the Herschel Crater on it. Taken by the Cassini spacecraft on February 13, 2010

Mimas and see - summary of new findings

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Artist's perception - the sun as a changing star that seems very fixed to us

The Age of the Sun and Darwinism

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Leonidas. From the Universe Today website

The best time to watch the Leonids is early morning

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Comet Hartley 2 as seen from Earth through telescopes on October 13, 2010

Prospects for meteorites following the passage of Comet Hartley 2

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Paul Davis

ET rang home

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The orbits of two asteroids passing by the Earth, September 8, 2010. Image: Universe Today

Two asteroids will pass by the Earth today at one in the afternoon and one at midnight. There is no fear of a collision

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Loom slopes in the Mandel'shtam crater on the moon. The slopes were cut by small impact craters. Photo: NASA's LRO spacecraft

NASA discovery: the moon is shrinking

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Perseid.

The rain of the Perseids comes this year with a moon that hardly interferes and planets that will line up

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Planet X that could apparently hit us in 2012. Illustration: universe today

2012 - Is the end of the world really coming?

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The fireball captured on Wednesday, 14/4/2010 at night from a web camera on the roof of a building at the University of Medicine in Wisconsin. Photo courtesy of the University and NASA's JPL Center

A meteorite fragment was discovered from the fireball that crashed in the US on Wednesday

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The last great bombardment on Earth. brought the water and the atmosphere

Earth's atmosphere came from outer space

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The Leonids return, in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday morning

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

2012, Nibiru, the reversal of the poles? The 20 common questions that NASA people are asked about the claims spread on the Internet * special project

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