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Aug. 10, 2026

Eclipse Meets Perseid Peak: Plan the August 12 Sky Show

Eclipse Meets Perseid Peak: Plan the August 12 Sky Show
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August 12 total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, and Spain; Perseids peak Aug. 12–13 under dark New Moon skies. Use certified eclipse glasses.

Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other sources.

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Calarogus Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with

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the help of ai A. August twelfth brings a total

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solar eclipse across Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, followed by the

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Persed meteor shower peak on August twelfth, thirteen. The new

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moon creates dark skies with sixty eighty meteors per hour

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possible before dawn. Totality lasts up to two minutes eighteen seconds.

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Near Iceland use certified eclipse glasses. Both gas giants put

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on a show. Saturn is at its yearly best, while

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Jupiter grows brighter and rises earlier each evening. There is

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plenty of activity on the Sun right now. Multiple sunspot

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regions are crackling with energy, and solar flares could fire

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off at any time. Northern lights chin chntces remain moderate

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tonight for viewers in Canada and the northernmost states. China

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has a long March seven a on the pad at

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Wenchang Space launch site People's Republic of China set to

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fly later today. NASA's Punch sharpens solar storm forecasting and

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first test using continuous imagery from NASA's Punch mission, scientists

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predicted the near earth arrival of a solar eruption to

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within thirty minutes. In an initial proof of concept test,

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an asteroid called twenty nineteen n y two is passing

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by today. It's several hundred feet across, passing about six

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lunar distances from Earth. No danger, just a cosmic neighbor.

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Dropping by AI helped gather today's update from NASA and

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Spaceflight News sources. The sky will be here when you

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