The Perseid meteor shower peaked on Aug 12–13, overcoming the glare of a waning gibbous moon to put on a spectacular show of shooting stars that delighted onlookers worldwide. The Perseids are active every July and August as Earth barrels through the trail of dusty debris shed by the wandering comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Our planet plowed through the densest part of …
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‘I always planned to attack there’ – Wout Van Aert drops Tadej Pogačar on Montmartre for spectacular final Tour de France stage victory CyclingnewsView Full Coverage on Google News Source link
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The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we’d been awaiting for five long years – an infrared photo of two dying stars we’d requested from the Very Large Telescope in Chile. I gasped – the stars were wreathed in a huge spiral of dust, like a snake eating its own …
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The mysterious “interstellar visitor” that was recently spotted whizzing through the solar system may be around 3 billion years older than our cosmic neighborhood, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the alien interloper would be the oldest comet ever seen from Earth. And, if it’s made of what researchers think it is, it may also grow a spectacularly long tail …
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One of the best meteor showers of the year is about to commence, as comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle sends debris at Earth. The Perseid meteor showers are the result of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, a 26-kilometer (16-mile) wide comet that takes 133 years to orbit the Sun. This “parent” comet, around twice the size of the rock which dinosaured the dinosaurs, is what showers …
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