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☆ Northern Taurids: Meteor shower could produce fireball display
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The Taurid meteor shower is not quite finished, with one of its two streams set to peak this weekend. When the Northern Taurids, an annual minor shower, is at its most active, sky-gazers could catch sight of a bright meteor or two streaking across the night sky. The Northern Taurids are expected to peak at around 7:21 p.m. Stemming from a parent comet called Encke, both Taurid showers typically produce low rates of five meteors per hour. When these celestial objects, known as the Encke Complex, take their orbital journey around the sun, they leave a debris trail that appears as the Taurid meteor showers when Earth’s orbit intersects with their path.

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☆ Southern Taurid meteor shower: See fireballs in the sky when it peaks this weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The first branch of the Taurid meteor showers is set to peak this weekend, presenting an enticing opportunity for patient sky-gazers. Southern Taurid meteors have been blazing bright across the night sky since late September, but around the peak — expected at 8:47 p.m. Around the shower’s peak, the moon will be nearly half full at 44%, according to the American Meteor Society. During its journey, the comet leaves a trail of debris behind that appears as the Southern Taurid meteor shower when Earth’s orbit intersects with its path. Remaining meteor shower peaks in 2023If observing the Taurids’ peak activity has you eager to see more, several other meteor showers still peak this year.

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☆ NASA’s Webb telescope image shows details of Saturn
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Astronomers have discovered surprising details about Saturn’s atmosphere, using a new image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. In the image, Saturn itself appears extremely dark due to the near-total absorption of sunlight by methane gas. The image was taken with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, known as NIRCam, as part of a Webb program that involves several exceptionally deep exposures of Saturn, according to NASA. This latest detailed image comes just weeks after the Webb telescope spotted a record-breaking water plume erupting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which feeds Saturn’s diffuse E ring, according to NASA. In the future, additional and deeper exposures from Webb will help astronomers examine fainter rings around Saturn, according to NASA.

Persons: NASA’s James Webb, Webb, “, ” Organizations: CNN —, NASA’s James Webb Space, NASA, Cassini, Webb, Saturn, Hubble

☆ The Taurids meteor shower is expected to peak this weekend. Here's how to watch bright fireballs dazzle the night sky.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Northern Taurids meteor shower will be at its best overnight, between November 11 and 12. In the Southern Hemisphere, the meteor shower reached another peak in mid-October. The Southern and Northern Taurids' last peaks were in 2015. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Southwest Research InstituteIn 2005, a Taurids meteor struck the surface of the moon. During the peak, the American Meteor Society says you might see around five meteors per hour under clear, dark skies.

☆ ‘Flaming basketball’ that fell from the sky may have been a meteor that destroyed a California home
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Mirna Alsharif | Mirna Alsharif Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A possible meteor caught on video that “looks like a flaming basketball” falling from the sky may have been responsible for destroying a Northern California man’s home last week. Authorities are now investigating whether it was possibly a meteor that fell from the sky onto Porcita's home. "I can say that during the incident many people approached the fire department to say they saw a potential meteor fall in that area. The debris "hits the Earth’s atmosphere at 65,000 mph and burns up" creating what the agency calls the Taurid meteor shower. When shown a video of the possible meteorite that had fallen in the area, Porcita said it looked like a "flaming basketball."

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▼ + stars: | 2021-06-23 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

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