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

0:03 Calorogus 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 per sed 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. Both gas giants put on a show.

0:43 Saturn is at its yearly best, while Jupiter grows brighter and rises earlier each evening. No moon tonight means dark skies all night long. This is prime time for spotting the Milky Way if you can get away from city lights. Haystack scientists study recent geospace storms and light shows. The Northern lights or Aurora Borealis, one of nature's most spectacular visual shows, can be elusive. Conventional wisdom says that to see them, we need to travel to northern Canada or Alaska. Launch coming up tomorrow a Falcon nine from Vandenberg Space for Space California SpaceX is sending up Starlink Internet satellites.

1:32 One of the many asteroids in our neighborhood, twenty nineteen n y two, swings by in the next couple of days. At several hundred feet across, it'll pass about six lunar distances from Earth. No threat, just a cosmic passerby. NASA's space weather trackers also note a burst of solar material was seen on the north side of the Sun. That's your space update for today, compiled by AI from NASA and Spaceflight News.