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When the Persians Illuminate Us: a Rain of Shooting Stars Takes Place in Our Sky, How Can We See Them?
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On the night of August 12 to 13, 2025, the French sky lit up dozens of shooting stars. This astronomical phenomenon has a name, the Persians, and will still be visible for a few nights.
The amateurs of astronomy and nature will have something to rejoice about this night from August 12 to 13, while two celestial events will light up the sky of Quebec: the peak of the shooting stars of the Perseids and the exceptional rapprochement between Venus and Jupiter at dawn
The rain of Perseides lit the sky this Wednesday, about midnight. The phenomenon was particularly visible in Turkey, as can be seen in the images. The rain of falling stars, as is commonly known, happens every year from late July to mid-August.
There's always a lot going on in the sky around August 10 – the Perseids, i.e. the shooting stars, are as numerous as they are rarely seen in the sky before.And you? Check out the celestial spectacle?Before you read more, you vote: Who actually replaced the annual meteorite rain?The mother comet responsible for the Perseid meteor shower is a rather large comet named 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The comet orbits the sun about every 133 years. Lewis Swift f…
This night is the peak of the Perseids, a magical rendezvous where you can observe a rain of shooting stars. But where do you have to go to observe them at best in Lyon?
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