Aug 10 - Meteor Shower Weekend

August 10 Meteor Shower Weekend by:

Perseids are peaking this weekend Best mornings are likely Sunday and Monday, but Saturday should be good, too! Here are tips and links for helping you enjoy the beloved annual Perseid meteor shower. Tomorrow's partial solar eclipse It'll be seen from the northern end of Earth: the Arctic, far-northeastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, and much of Asia (north and east).  How NASA will shield solar probe from crazy heat The Parker Solar Probe, expected to launch tomorrow, will get closer to the sun than any spacecraft before. How will it withstand the heat? Astronomers discover new, enigmatic fast radio burst Fast radio bursts - aka FRBs - are brief, powerful, puzzling bursts of radio waves from deep space. Now astronomers have detected a new and even more unusual type of FRB.

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Fire cloud over California, from space A pyrocumulus cloud - sometimes called a fire cloud - forms when intense heat from wildfires causes air to rise. Californians have been seeing these towering clouds this July and August.

Perseids are peaking this weekend The composite image above - from John Ashley at Glacier National Park in Montana, in 2016 - perfectly captures the feeling of standing outside as dawn is approaching, after a peak night of Perseid meteor-watching. As viewed from anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, the Perseids' radiant point is highest at dawn, and so the meteors rain down from overhead. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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