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The Lyrids aren't known for their flashy shows, but this year they're getting some help. The height of the showers is expected Sunday morning before dawn, and darker skies will make viewing more exciting. By Donna Evans A Geminid meteor. Photo by Jimmy Westlake posted on http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/meteor.cfm. Jimmy Westlake Saturday's meteor shower could be one [...]

From Saturday night to early Sunday morning will be prime time to observe the Lyrids, Earth's annual April shower of meteoroids from the tail of Comet Thatcher. Most years, the Lyrids arrival rates solidly on the B-list of dates on the celestial Meteor Showers occur throughout the year, and a bright Moon can wash out [...]

West Seattle Sky Watch: Quadrantids meteor shower tonight. Gemenid meteor shower watchers can't figure out where all the material in the event comes from. Asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the apparent source of the Gemenid meteor shower, doesn't seem to shed enough rock and dust to account for the shower's intensity. Astronomy | meteor showers | Tonight [...]

Stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere can look forward to 2012's first meteor shower which is set to peak at 2:30 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 4. Stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere can look forward to 2012's first meteor shower which is set to peak at 2:30 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 4. Tonight's Quadrantid meteor [...]

The Quadrantid Meteor Shower did have to happen on a cold night for many of us. Did you get up to look this morning? Did you do the brave thing and go back to bed? Dennis Boon of Suffolk, England, says he took the image above at 5 am, local time, By Rob Waugh The [...]

The yearly Geminid meteor shower will be dazzling tomorrow night, so ask your parents if you can stay up to check it out! The shower's peak on the night of December 13 to the early hours of December 14 is expected to be a Some people at a Harlan County hospital thought they witnessed a [...]

Temperatures will remain in the 70s throughout the weekend with wind out of the SW at 5-10 mph. For tonight, temperatures drop into the 50s and 60s and rain with continue on into the evening hours. Remember to watch for meteor showers Saturday and With the annual Perseid Meteor Shower already underway, we're looking to [...]

The reason the meteor shower is called the Perseid, is because the point of the sky or radiant where the meteors appear to originate from is in the constellation of Perseus, hence Perseid. When the Perseid meteor shower Perseid Meteor Shower to Compete With Full Moon on Friday. This week marks the annual return of [...]

Perseid meteor shower watchers will be dodging a full moon at the shower's peak on Friday and Saturday. Here are some tips for watching the Perseid meteor shower. A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain, Al-Jamaan attributed these meteor showers to the presence of grains of dust and [...]