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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Leonid meteors seen from 13 km altitude aboard an aircraft during the 1999 Leonids Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid-MAC). Comet Tempel-Tuttle provides the cometary debris for the Leonid meteor shower. ... Every 17-19 November Earth crosses Tempel-TuttleтАЩs orbit and the Leonids become visible. With clear, dark skies observers may see 10 to 15 Leonid meteors every hour on those mornings. ...

... 9.08.1996 . ... Credit Copyright: Sirko Molau , IMO , Archenhold-Sternwarte Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of Perseus, Comet Swift-Tuttle presents -- The Perseid Meteor Shower -- coming to your night sky this weekend! ... Indeed it is now known to be a regular August shower caused by the yearly passage of the Earth through the orbiting debri left behind by periodic comet Swift-Tuttle . ... The image shows bright Perseids recorded that year from August 9 through 14. ... August...

See also: 2004 Perseids . This year's annual Perseid meteor shower takes place between the dates 17th July and 24th August, peaking on the night of 12/13th August, with a formal maximum in the small hours of Wednesday 13th August. ... This is the most famous of all meteor showers and rarely fails to provide an impressive display. ... Comet Swift-Tuttle takes approximately 130 years to make one circuit around the Sun, and sheds particles when closest to the Sun in its orbit. ...

... August 9, 1996 . The Perseid Meteor Shower . ... Explanation: From a radiant point in the constellation of Perseus, Comet Swift-Tuttle presents -- The Perseid Meteor Shower -- coming to your night sky this weekend! ... Dramatically illustrated in this composite video image made using MOVIE , meteors from the 1994 Perseids streak across the sky framed by the three bright stars of the asterism known as the "Summer Triangle" . ... What's the best way to enjoy a meteor shower? ... About APOD | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Two meteor showers put on shows this December . ... And a second shower under moonless skies December 22/23 offers an additional treat this month. ... The Ursid meteor shower peaks under a dark sky before dawn December 23. ... One of the yearт??s most prolific meteor showers makes its appearance in mid-December. ... StarDome: Locate the constellations Gemini and Ursa Minor in your night sky before this meteor shower with our interactive star chart . ...

... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Only one other comet, Comet Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail. ... Comets are the Rip Van Winkles of the solar system -- mini-worlds that have changed little during their 4.5-billion-year nap far from the Sun. ... Observing Comets . ... Once, comets inhabited the entire solar system. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... The TRACE images may be used without restrictions in publications of any kind. ... These two images, taken on 18 November 2000 at 15:54UT and 16:11UT, respectively, show such an event: the red circle in the image to the left shows a region where many loops are cooling, with bright loop tops (the intensity scales with the square root of the image to reduce the dynamic range). ... See also a collection of images related to the Sun, other cool stars, and solar-terrestrial effects . ... Images | ...