Tagged: Meteor

Aquariid on May 6, 2021. She wrote: “I knew that the Eta Aquariid meteor shower was going to peak this morning. I took a nap, not setting my alarm. If I was awoken I would go out. 3 was peak viewing. I awoke at 2...

Comets that circle the Sun in very elongated orbits spread their debris so thin along their orbit or eject it out of the solar system altogether so that their meteor showers are hard to detect. From a new meteor shower survey published in the journal...

A slow-moving flash of light appears to have originated from an asteroid and may have left meteorites behind. Humans have spent centuries developing ever-more-spectacular fireworks, but it’s still hard to compete with what space can throw at us. Observers in parts of the UK witnessed...

Officials say it was definitely an exploding space rock behind the dramatic show. The National Weather Service has confirmed what hundreds of eyewitnesses in Florida — from Jacksonville to Miami, and also the Bahamas — reported seeing Monday night. A meteor streaked across the sky...

The year’s shooting-star spotting season is under way, and the first big shower is heating up right now. Meteor season is officially back, with the annual Lyrid meteor shower peaking this week. The first three months of most years represent a relative dry spell for...

If you’ve spent much time looking up at the night sky, you’ve probably seen some spectacular meteors and meteor showers. One of the most amazing things about these displays is that the majority of the space dust that causes visible meteors is tiny — between...

If you’ve spent much time looking up at the night sky, you’ve probably seen some spectacular meteors and meteor showers. One of the most amazing things about these displays is that the majority of the space dust that causes visible meteors is tiny — between...

On the afternoon of Sept. 15, 2007, residents of a village near Lake Titicaca in southern Peru heard a loud roaring noise and looked up to see a ball of fire blazing through the sky. The object struck the earth, creating a loud noise, shaking...

An elusive “Phoenicid meteor shower” (named after the constellation Phoenix located in the southern sky) has been detected by Japanese astronomers on December 5, 1956, during their voyage in the Indian Ocean. Interestingly, it has not been observed again. Where did the Phoenicids come from...