Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The annual Perseid meteor shower has begun and you need to start thinking about planning a visit to a dark sky destination for ...

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best shooting star displays of the year. The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year. The shower is active from mid ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower is coming soon. As many as 50 “shooting stars” per hour are expected to streak ...

Geminids is, on average, even more intense than the popular Perseids meteor shower, spawning anywhere ... as of 1922 due to overcrowding in star charts. The best time to see Quadrantids will ...

This meteor shower peaks just after midnight (local time) on May 5, 2025, from the constellation Aquarius. Perseids (August): the Perseids is arguably one of the most famous and visible meteor ...

A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower. Courtesy NASA/Bill Ingalls via Flickr. We’re nearing the peak of one of the biggest astronomical events of the year ...

We won’t see it again until the year 2283. The Perseid meteor shower takes place from 17 July to 24 August as Earth passes through the trail left behind by the very large comet Swift-Tuttle. Most ...

(Photo/ Precinct 4 Constable’s Office) A shower of Perseid meteors lights up the sky in 2009 in this NASA time-lapse image. (NASA/JPL) One of the year’s best meteor showers is coming up this ...

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the three biggest shooting star shows of the year, will peak through the early morning of Aug. 14. According to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ...