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Aug. 7, 2026

Eclipse and Perseids on August 12: The Sky's Biggest Double Feature

Eclipse and Perseids on August 12: The Sky's Biggest Double Feature
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A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, and Spain on August 12, followed by the Perseids under dark, moon-free skies.

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Calorogus Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with

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the help of AI. August Headline Sky event arrives August twelfth.

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A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, followed

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by the per sed meteor shower's peak on the night

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of August twelfth, thirteen. The new moon leaves dark skies

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with sixty eighty meteors per hour possible before dawn. Totality

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lasts up to two minutes eighteen seconds. Near Iceland use

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certified eclipse glasses. Both gas giants put on a show.

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Saturn is at its yearly best, while Jupiter grows brighter

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and rises earlier each evening. No moon tonight means dark

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skies all night long. This is prime time for spotting

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the Milky Way if you can get away from city lights.

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Haystack scientists study recent geospace storms and light shows. The

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Northern lights or Aurora Borealis, one of nature's most spectacular

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visual shows, can be elusive. Conventional wisdom says that to

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see them, we need to travel to northern Canada or Alaska.

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Launch coming up tomorrow a Falcon nine from Vandenberg Space

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for Space California SpaceX is sending up Starlink Internet satellites.

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One of the many asteroids in our neighborhood, twenty nineteen

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n y two, swings by in the next couple of days.

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At several hundred feet across, it'll pass about six lunar

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distances from Earth. No threat, just a cosmic passerby. NASA's

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space weather trackers also note a burst of solar material

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was seen on the north side of the Sun. That's

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your space update for today, compiled by AI from NASA

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and Spaceflight News.