Solar Eclipse and Perseids: What Skywatchers Need

0:03 Calarogus Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with the help of AI. August twelfth brings a total solar eclipse across Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, followed by the Perseed 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. Saturn reaches opposition this month, its closest and brightest of the year. Jupiter rises earlier each night, dominating the late night sky. Here. 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. U Light's chances remain moderate tonight for viewers in Canada and the northernmost States. The European Space Agency selects Ariani six to launch deep space CubeSat The European Space Agency has awarded a contract to launch its Solar Storm Monitoring Cube SAT on an Arianty six rocket.

1:22 Right now, twelve humans are living in space aboard the International Space Station oleg Cononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, among them. The station passes overhead several times a day if you know when to look. SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, set to fly on August fifteenth. The booster will attempt to land back at Vandenburg. AI helped gather today's update from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. The sky will be here when you wake