LIVE: Perseid meteor shower lights up skies over US

Трансляция Персеид над Бранденбургом (Brandenburg) из парка Sternenpark Westhavelland. Включение запланировано на вечер 12 августа 2020 ! This year’s Perseid meteor shower lights up skies across the US, as it reaches its peak between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, on August 11-12. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every July and August as the Earth encounters debris left behind from comet Swift-Tuttle. This comet has an orbit of 133 years and last entered the inner solar system in 1992. Even though the Swift-Turtle now lies in the outer portions of the solar system, far away from Earth, we still encounter debris that have been left be