How To Watch The Massive Asteroid Flying Past Earth TonightMike Wall
One of the strongest meteor showers of the year, the Geminids actually originate from the sun-orbiting asteroid 3200 Phaethon and peak when the Earth intersects the dust cloud left by the asteroid. These meteors can range in color from yellow to white or even green. Unfo...
The Lyrids willnext peakon the night ofApril 22, 2025,displaying a maximum of about 18 meteors per hour in a clear sky. Late evening April 21 until dawn April 22 will be the best time to view the Lyrids. The radiant will be between theconstellationsLyra and Hercules. The bright starVega...
"Slooh technical staff will let the public follow this fast-moving asteroid in two different ways. In one view, the background stars will be tracked at their own rate and the asteroid will appear as an obvious streak or a moving time-lapse dot across the starry field," Berman said in a...
The Perseid meteor shower will be visible tonight in certain areas of the northern hemisphere. NASA will livestream the event beginning at 9 p.m. for those who cannot view the shower due to poor visibility. Tonight, you might be able to catch the spectacle that is the Perseid meteor shower...
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to splash down in Pacific for first time — how to watch NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, whichlaunched in November 2021, will reach Dimorphos on Monday, September 26, and the whole event will be streamed online. ...
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So long as you have a cloudless or mostly cloudless sky, the best way to view a meteor shower is to find a location well away from any light pollution such as city lights. To give yourself the best chance of witnessing as many meteor burn-ups as possible, try to find a viewing spot...
A handful of scientists have used the fossil record, or rather the lack of it, to suggest the asteroid impact did not act alone and might not even have been a major player in dinosaur extinction. Nearly all experts on the subject disagree with that minority view, however. "I'm not tryin...
The stereotype when astronomers discover an asteroid is an astronomer looks through the telescope, spots the asteroid and goes, “oh my God!� [laughter] Pamela: That is so not true. Fraser: “That’s going to hit the Earth!� But that’s not ...