Eclipse Meets Perseid Peak: Plan the August 12 Sky Show

0:03 Calarogus Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with the help of ai A. August twelfth brings a total solar eclipse across Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, followed by the Persed meteor shower peak on August twelfth, thirteen. The new moon creates 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. Saturn is at its yearly best, while Jupiter grows brighter and rises earlier each evening. 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 chin chntces remain moderate tonight for viewers in Canada and the northernmost states. China has a long March seven a on the pad at Wenchang Space launch site People's Republic of China set to fly later today. NASA's Punch sharpens solar storm forecasting and first test using continuous imagery from NASA's Punch mission, scientists predicted the near earth arrival of a solar eruption to within thirty minutes. In an initial proof of concept test,

1:35 an asteroid called twenty nineteen n y two is passing by today. It's several hundred feet across, passing about six lunar distances from Earth. No danger, just a cosmic neighbor. Dropping by AI helped gather today's update from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. The sky will be here when you wake