Meteor shower

2022 - 7 - 29

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Meteor shower tonight: Piscis Austrinids first in trio of showers to ... (The Guardian)

New moon will provide ideal viewing conditions for the Piscis Austrinids, Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers this week as cosmic ...

The Southern Delta Aquariids will be visible around 11pm, to the east-northeast and 45 degrees upwards from the horizon, De Marco said. The Alpha Capricornids are “relatively bright and will have some fireballs,” De Marco said. The radiant of the Southern Delta Aquariids, for example, is close to the star Delta Aquarii, in the constellation Aquarius. “Look towards the east, about 45 degrees up – about halfway between the horizon and above your head.” When the Earth crosses the path of a comet’s orbit, it encounters this debris. Meteor showers occur when cosmic debris enters the Earth’s atmosphere.

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Meteor shower tonight: How to see Piscis Austrinids dazzle across ... (7NEWS.com.au)

UWA & NASA celebrate the first James Webb Space Telescope images ... Australians will be treated to an extraordinary sight on Thursday when a meteor shower soars ...

Most of the time meteor showers are named after a star or constellation that is close to where the space rocks appear in the sky, with the Piscis Austrinids named after the Piscis Austrinus constellation, otherwise known as ‘The Southern fish’. According to NASA, a meteor is a space rock that enters Earth’s atmosphere, which is made extremely hot by the resistance (or drag) it experiences as it continues to fall, causing the bright streak. Australians will be treated to an extraordinary sight on Thursday when a meteor shower soars across the southern hemisphere.

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Meteor brightens up the sky above Sydney as peak meteor showers ... (Space.com)

The peak shooting star season has arrived with six meteor showers expected to pepper Earth in the next weeks as the planet hurtles through fields of ...

The shower is quite thin, with less than ten meteors expected every hour. The Alpha Capricornids, which peaked earlier this week, are a rather diffuse shower, with only a few meteors hitting Earth's atmosphere every hour. The image above captures a meteor illuminating the night sky above Sydney, Australia, on the night of July 28.

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3 different meteor showers will be happening simultaneously on ... (NPR)

Three meteor showers will converge this weekend, peaking on Saturday. Look up! You don't need any fancy equipment to see this show, but you'll need to get ...

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2 meteor showers will light up the night sky this weekend (CBS News)

The Delta Aquariids meteor shower is expected to peak Friday night into Saturday morning.

Meteor showers are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. However, it can be seen equally well on either side of the equator. During its peak, the moon will be 5% full.

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How to watch this weekend's meteor showers (Blue Mountains Gazette)

The Piscis Austrinids, Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids will illuminate skies from tonight. Advertisement. Ad. Dr Andrew Jacob, curator ...

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Trio of meteor showers to dazzle Australia and New Zealand – how ... (The Guardian)

New moon will provide ideal viewing conditions for the Piscis Austrinids, Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers this week as cosmic ...

The Southern Delta Aquariids will be visible around 11pm, to the east-northeast and 45 degrees upwards from the horizon, De Marco said. The Alpha Capricornids are “relatively bright and will have some fireballs,” De Marco said. This shower has the quickest meteors of the three peaking this week. The radiant of the Southern Delta Aquariids, for example, is close to the star Delta Aquarii, in the constellation Aquarius. “Look towards the east, about 45 degrees up – about halfway between the horizon and above your head.” New Zealand astronomer and director of Otago Museum, Ian Griffin, said the showers would easily be visible with the naked eye.

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How to watch this weekend's meteor showers (The Canberra Times)

The Piscis Austrinids, Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids will illuminate skies from tonight. Advertisement. Ad. Dr Andrew Jacob, curator ...

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Look skyward for a triple meteoric spectacle | Canberra CityNews (Canberra CityNews)

Not one meteor shower, but three? The Solar System is full of debris left behind from the formation of the planets more than 4.5 billion years ago. Some of this ...

While these three showers are shaping up to put on a decent show, they aren’t the best meteoric event of the year. That’s the Geminids, coming up in December. So there’s much to look forward to yet! Meteor showers are named after the location of their radiant. By midnight, and immediately after, looking to the north would be best. The key for observers is to work out when the shower’s “radiant” will be above the horizon. Most of the meteors you’ll see this weekend will likely be members of this stream. In the depths of the Australian winter, Earth is moving through a bit of space where three streams of debris intersect with our planet’s orbit. The Southern Delta Aquariids have been known to throw up some surprises. Like the Alpha Capricornids, they are a minor shower that yields just a few meteors per hour, even at their peak. They are one of several meteor showers seemingly linked to one parent object, as though a large comet fell apart long ago, leaving behind a vast amount of debris, potentially including fragments large enough to be comets in their own right. Earth continually passes through these streams of detritus as it moves around the Sun, which gives birth to the annual meteor showers. Some of this debris – comets and asteroids – moves on orbits that cross Earth’s path around the Sun.

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