Two Sky Shows, One Night: August Eclipse Meets the Perseids — August 06, 2026

0:03 Calarogus Shark Media. Space weather is brought to you with the help of AI. August headlined Sky event arrives August twelfth. A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, followed by the pursed 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. This is Saturn's best month. The ringed planet is visible all night and at its brightest, Jupiter is not far behind. Rising in the late evening. The fading crescent moon won't appear until early morning, giving you dark skies all night long. Rocket Launch Alert SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon nine in the next couple of days from Vandenberg's Space four Space California, carrying the Starlink Internet Satellites mission. The Sun is putting on a show for solar observers. Lots of active sunspot regions right now, which means the chance of solar flares stays elevated. Aurora watchers in the far North might catch a faint glow on the horizon tonight. A bit of cosmic perspective, if two pieces of the same type of metal touch in

1:35 the vacuum of space, they will permanently bond together through a process called cold welding. Asteroid Flyby Alert twenty nineteen and y two, larger than a football field, passes about six lunar distances from Earth in about three days. These close approaches happen weekly. Astronomers track thousands of them. AI helped gather today's update from NASA and spaceflight news sources. The sky will be here when you wake