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Perseids: what you need to know about the meteor shower

2021-08-09T10:05:17.088Z


The peak will occur on the night of Thursday August 12 to Friday August 13. The time is right for vows. Whether one is superstitious or not, it would be a shame to miss one of the most beautiful shooting star peaks of 2021. The Perseids show will culminate on the night of Thursday August 12 to Friday August 13, but beautiful meteors should be there. also visible the previous nights and the following nights. It is generally between the second part of the evening and until


The time is right for vows.

Whether one is superstitious or not, it would be a shame to miss one of the most beautiful shooting star peaks of 2021. The Perseids show will culminate on the night of Thursday August 12 to Friday August 13, but beautiful meteors should be there. also visible the previous nights and the following nights.

It is generally between the second part of the evening and until dawn that the phenomenon is most important.

At the height of the event, there could be as many as a hundred shooting stars per hour.

The conditions will be particularly favorable this year for observation, since this peak will be four days after the new moon: the sky will be dark.

Conversely, in 2022, the show will coincide with the full moon.

While scattered rains threaten the Channel coasts, according to Météo France, the rest of mainland France should benefit from clear weather.

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The Perseids return every year between mid-July and mid-August. During this period, the Earth passes through a swarm of dust left by comet Swift-Tuttle which orbits the Sun in 133 years. The last time it crossed the path of our planet was in 1992. It is these small debris which, heating up when they enter the Earth's atmosphere, become shooting stars. They are therefore not real stars. The Perseids take their name from Perseus, a character from Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Danae. It is from the constellation of the same name from which seem to escape a large part of these shooting stars.

Source: leparis

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