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Whichever way you look at it, this year’s Perseid meteor shower peak on 12 August is going to be challenging for naked-eye observers. As with all meteor showers, some years are better than others, but

Prabhu, Emirates Astronomical Observatory, Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 2022, April 2023 and October 2023 Prabhu says: “This was a challenging target. I gathered enough broadband and narrowband data to hi

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A crack-of-dawn start is one way to avoid the crowds. But there’s another option that doesn’t need an alarm clock.

Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the fine dust debris strewn around the orbit of a comet. This happens when Earth is in a similar position in its orbit every year, and meteor showers rep