This app is saying moon is at its peak and the moon is not in the sky during this meteor shower... BabyBunnyCait , 2024/05/21 ? Looks like app hasn’t been updated in a while, I saw a meteor and thought it wo
Area students use cameras to track fireballs in the skyANSLEE WILLETTTHE GAZETTE
Night sky photographer Mike Taylor captured two spectacular images from Maine. The first image captured was taken June 10 from Branch Pond, Maine, and features bright stars of our Milky Way galaxy in the sky and the faint purple glow of the northern lights. The image also shows a brilliant ...
The glowing pockets of air around fast-moving space rocks, ranging from the size of a dust particle to a boulder, may be visible in the night sky. The two showers share similar names because, when seen in the night sky, they appear to originate from different points in the constellation ...
This asteroid-detection system is optimized to pick up meteoroids impacting Earth, and will scan the sky a couple of times a night in search of them. The aim is to give a few days' or weeks' notice ahead of an impact. But such tracking efforts are concerned primarily with big, ...
June 29 will probably feature the best view, when the Crescent Moon will appear lined up with all of the planets. Five planets and the Crescent Moon line up in the eastern sky on the morning of June 29, 2024. (Stellarium) Those same five planets wil...
As a result, each night from October 24 to November 11, we could see an unusually high number of fireball meteors. The best time to watch is in the hours around midnight, when the constellation Taurus is high in the sky. What will we likely see?
computers automatically detect bolides in GLM data. Their goal was to build a publicly available database of bolide events and theirlight curves—the trajectories and intensity of the light streaks they left across the sky. Smith and his team described their work in the journalIcarusin November...
But it never ceases to amaze me how many people want to make balls of fire in the comfort of their own homes! So, here you go: Fireballs! And best of all: Fireballs You Can Use in Your Coffee! I wish I knew who the genius was that came up with using Cremora to make firebal...
The typical meteor flash in the sky is caused by a micrometeoroid — probably about the size of a grain of sand — which tends to completely vapourize when it hits the atmosphere. Bright fireballs like these two, on the other hand, are pr...