August 12 Eclipse and Perseids: A Rare Double Sky Show

0:03 Calarogu Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with the help of AI. August headline sky event arrives August twelfth. A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, followed by the Persed meteor shower's peak on the night of August twelfth, thirteen. The new moon leaves dark skies with sixty eighty meteors per hour possible before dawn. Totality lasts up to two minutes eighteen seconds. Near Iceland use certified eclipse glasses. Saturn shines at its peak brightness, visible from dust to dawn. Jupiter rises around ten PM, making the late night sky truly spectacular. Tonight is a new moon, the sky will be at its darkest head outside after nine pm for the best views of faint stars and galaxies.

1:03 NASA's space weather trackers also note a burst of solar material was seen on the northeast side of the Sun, moving at moderate speed. There is plenty of activity on the Sun right now. Multiple sunspot regions are crackling with energy, and solar flares could fire off at any time. Northern lights chances remain moderate tonight for viewers in Canada. And the northernmost States. Launch coming up later today. A Falcon nine from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. SpaceX is sending up Starlink Internet satellites heads up for asteroid fans. Twenty nineteen, n y two passes Earth tomorrow about six lunar distances from Earth. It's larger than a football field. Harmless but fun to track. This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening.