Facebook Tweet Email Link Sky-gazers may get a good chance to see fireballs streak across the night sky this week. Two meteor showers — the Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids — will reach their peak and another is ramping up. The Alpha Capricornids meteor shower, which is best known for producing very bright meteors called fireballs that may look …
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2 summer meteor showers are about to peak on the same night: How to catch the Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids at their best.
Two meteor showers will peak together on the night of July 29-30, with the moon out of the way just in time for about 25 shooting stars per hour to be seen in dark skies. The highlight will be the Southern Delta Aquariids, the stronger of the two showers, with expected rates of up to 20 meteors per hour at …
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