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Aug. 11, 2026

Total Solar Eclipse and Perseids: Key Facts for August 12

Total Solar Eclipse and Perseids: Key Facts for August 12
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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.

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Calarogus Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with

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the help of AI. August twelfth brings a total solar

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

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Seed 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. The Perseed meteor Shower

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peaks tonight one of the year's best. Look northeast after

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midnight quick solar update. The Sun is quite active with

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numerous sunspot groups visible. That means a moderate chance of

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northern lights tonight for those in northern latitudes. Look north

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after dark if skies are clear. One of the many

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asteroids in our neighborhood, twenty thirteen QC eleven swings by

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tomorrow at several hundred feet across. It'll pass about fourteen

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lunar distances from Earth. No threat, just a cosmic passerby.

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The European Space Agency selects Arianni six to launch Deep

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Space Cube SAT. The European Space Agency has awarded a

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contract to launch its Solar Storm Monitoring Cube SAT on

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an Arianni six rocket launch coming up later today. A

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Falcon nine from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. SpaceX

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is sending up Starlink Internet satellites. Today's report was compiled

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by AI from NASA Launch Library and Spaceflight News. See

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you tomorrow.