Aug 11 - Top Stories This Week

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Perseids are peaking this weekend Tips and links to help you enjoy the beloved Perseid meteor shower. A spacecraft to touch the sun Launch of the daredevil Parker Solar Probe – which will get closer to the sun than any spacecraft in human history – has been delayed until Sunday, August 12. How NASA will shield solar probe from crazy heat How will Parker Solar Probe withstand the sun's heat? Astronomers discover new, enigmatic fast radio burst Fast radio bursts - aka FRBs - are brief, powerful, puzzling bursts of radio waves from deep space.  Dark Rift in the Milky Way Look up under a dark sky, and you’ll notice a long, dark lane dividing the Milky Way. Speck from an asteroid This is a speck of cosmic dust, brought back to Earth by a Japanese space mission. Prehistoric mass graves linked to tsunamis “We were able to make a strong case for many of these sites being related to major tsunamis, as opposed to more standard explanations like warfare or an epidemic." Think sharks are the coolest ocean predators? Consider mantis shrimps Can sharks take down prey in milliseconds? Do they have bullet-like strikes or super-vision? Mantis shrimps can and do.

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Perseids radiant point View larger. | Meteors in the Perseid shower radiate from a point in the constellation Perseus the Hero. This post by Guy Ottewell has the best charts you'll find anywhere online. Chart via Guy Ottewell.

A spacecraft to touch the sun     The Parker Solar Probe awaiting launch Saturday morning, prior to the scrub. The launch has now been re-scheduled for Sunday morning. Click into this article for more details. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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