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https://www.europesays.com/ie/715971/ Meteors, Milky Way, Hunter’s Moon: September astronomical events #AstroColumn #AstronomicalEvents #Astronomy #core #Éire #elongation #Galaxy #hunter #IE #Ireland #Jupiter #Mars #Mercury #MeteorShower #MeteorShowers #meteors #MilkyWay #MilkyWayCore #MilkyWayGalaxy #mmnd #month #monthly #Moon #NightSky #OCT #october #Opposition #Orionids #Planets #Saturn #Science #SeptemberAstronomicalEvent #Sky #Space #stargazing #Sun #year

https://www.europesays.com/ie/712945/ Orionid meteor shower to streak across night sky this week #EarthEncounters #Éire #Halley'sComet #IE #Ireland #MeteorShowers #Science

https://www.europesays.com/people/222588/ Harvest Moon, supermoon and meteor showers: Celestial events to watch in coming months #AstrologicalEventsFall2026 #FullMoonOctober2026 #HarvestMoon2026 #JeffBezos #MeteorShowers #OrionidsMeteorShower

https://www.europesays.com/ie/681942/ Harvest Moon, supermoon and meteor showers: Celestial events to watch in coming months #AstrologicalEventsFall2026 #Éire #FullMoonOctober2026 #HarvestMoon2026 #IE #Ireland #MeteorShowers #OrionidsMeteorShower #Science #Space

What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #eclipses #Lunareclipses #meteorshowers #perseids #Science #Skywatching #Solareclipses #TheSolarSystem #venus
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/796736/

What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching.…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #Eclipses #Lunareclipses #meteorshowers #Perseids #Science #Skywatching #SolarEclipses #TheSolarSystem #UK #UnitedKingdom #venus
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/722166/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1123439/ What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA #Eclipses #LunarEclipses #MeteorShowers #Perseids #Science #Skywatching #SolarEclipses #Space #TheSolarSystem #UK #UnitedKingdom #Venus

https://www.europesays.com/ie/614563/ What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA #eclipses #Éire #IE #Ireland #LunarEclipses #MeteorShowers #Perseids #Science #Skywatching #SolarEclipses #Space #TheSolarSystem #Venus

What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching.…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #america #Eclipses #LunarEclipses #meteorshowers #Perseids #science #Skywatching #SolarEclipses #technology #TheSolarSystem #unitedstatesofamerica #venus
https://www.europesays.com/3166221/

What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA https://www.byteseu.com/2243510/ #Eclipses #LunarEclipses #MeteorShowers #Perseids #Science #Skywatching #SolarEclipses #TheSolarSystem #Venus

https://www.europesays.com/3166221/ What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA #america #Eclipses #LunarEclipses #MeteorShowers #Perseids #science #Skywatching #SolarEclipses #technology #TheSolarSystem #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #venus

https://www.europesays.com/ie/611545/ Sky-gazers can look forward to a double meteor shower peak this week. How and when to see it | News #AmericanMeteorSociety #Éire #IE #Ireland #Meteor #MeteorShowers #meteoroids #Nasa’sMeteoroidEnvironmentOffice #Science

Celebrate #summer with two back-to-back #meteor shower bonanzas
These #meteorshowers occur around the same time every year, with their peaks taking place over four days at the end of July
First up are the #SouthernDeltaAquariids, scientists don’t know which #space rock the Southern Delta Aquariids originate from!
Second the #AlphaCapricornids are famous for their slow, bright, colorful fireballs.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-southern-delta-aquariids-and-alpha-capricornids-meteor-showers-are-about-to-peak/
https://archive.ph/flQwU

2 meteor showers peak on the same night this week ‪—‬ how to get the best views, despite a near-full moon

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#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #AlphaCapricornids #AmericanMeteorSociety #fullbuckmoon #fullmoon #meteorshowers #peaknight #Science #shootingstars #southerndeltaaquariids
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/786977/

Delta Aquariids and Perseids meteor showers coming in July | Pets, Animals and Nature

Get ready, stargazers. July is about to get busy with shooting stars as two major meteor showers become…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #ArticlePlus #astronomers #Astronomy #ImageTopper #meteorshowers #NASA #OuterSpace #perseidmeteorshower #Science #Spaceexploration #USATGraphics
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/758362/

July 2026

July arrives, as usual, with one foot in the long grass and the other in a thundercloud.

This is the month of high summer, of heavy roses, restless skies, ripening fruit and strange light lingering late over the fields. It is a month that feels deceptively ordinary until you look at it sideways. Then the old signs begin to appear.

The swifts and swallows are screaming above the rooftops, the bees are drunk on clover, the hedgerows are thickening into green walls and the first whisper of harvest is waiting just behind the heat shimmer.

In the old almanacs, July was never just a month of sunshine. July was a month of watching. Watch the sky. Watch the crops. Watch the animals…

Watch the weather on St Swithin’s Day, because tradition says that if rain falls on 15 July, it will fall for forty days after. The story is tied to St Swithin of Winchester, whose bones were moved in 971, bringing, according to legend, a long and mournful storm. Whether saintly displeasure or simple English weather, the warning remains: never trust July just because it smiles.

The moon, too, keeps her own calendar. After the late June full moon, July wanes into darkness, with the new moon falling on 14 July, the first quarter on 21 July, and the full Buck Moon rising on 29 July.

In folklore, the Buck Moon belongs to antlers, growth, heat and wild strength – a fitting lantern for a month when the natural world seems almost too alive.

By mid-month, the Dog Days begin to settle over the land. Older English reckoning placed them from early July into August, when Sirius, the Dog Star, was associated with heat, fever, tempers, storms and madness.

These were the days when milk soured quickly, dogs were watched carefully, and people blamed the sky for all manner of human foolishness.

And then, just as the month begins to tip towards August, the heavens start throwing sparks. The Southern Delta Aquariids run from 12 July to 23 August, peaking around 30 July, while the Perseids begin stirring from 17 July onwards.

July, then, ends not quietly, but with meteors – small fragments of ancient debris burning bright above fields, rooftops and sleeping towns.

For me, languishing in the heat of Mysterious Towers, surrounded by rapidly growing felines and with nary a breeze to shift the accumulated kitten hair on the keyboard of my laptop, July feels like a waiting month.

We stand between the bright folklore of midsummer and the darker pull of late summer – harvest ghosts, haunted roads, old crimes, strange beasts in the fields, and the first faint shadow of autumn hiding beneath the green.

So this month, we will be looking backwards and sideways into old legends, unsolved mysteries and the strange little stories that cling to places long after the official histories have moved on.

Because July may be golden. But gold, as every old tale reminds us, is rarely innocent.

Stay Curious 🙂

Planets shine and two meteor showers crisscross the night sky in July 2026

Keep your eyes to the night skies throughout July, to spot planets on both horizons, two meteor showers…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #CA #Canada #crescentmoon #firstFullMoon #FullBuckMoon #JupiterandVenus #meteorshowers #nightskies #nightsky #QuarterMoon #TheNewMoon #Waxinggibbousmoon
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/772990/

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌠☄️ #HamiltonCollege astronomer Adam Lark breaks down #asteroids, #comets, #meteors, and #meteorites – where they form, how they light up our sky, and how to spot a real meteorite on the ground.

👉 https://theconversation.com/asteroid-or-comet-meteor-or-meteorite-how-to-identify-and-classify-the-rocks-you-see-streaking-through-the-sky-283958

#solarsystem #astronomy #science #stargazing #meteorshowers #nasa #kids #nightsky #observatory

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌠☄️ #HamiltonCollege astronomer Adam Lark breaks down #asteroids, #comets, #meteors, and #meteorites – where they form, how they light up our sky, and how to spot a real meteorite on the ground.

👉 https://theconversation.com/asteroid-or-comet-meteor-or-meteorite-how-to-identify-and-classify-the-rocks-you-see-streaking-through-the-sky-283958

#solarsystem #astronomy #science #stargazing #meteorshowers #nasa #kids #nightsky #observatory

https://www.europesays.com/ie/461134/ What was that bright flash seen in sky above Washington state? What we know #AmericanMeteorSociety #BrightFireball #BrightFlash #BritishColumbia #Éire #IE #Ireland #MeteorShowers #PacificNorthwest #Science #Space #WashingtonState

https://www.europesays.com/ie/460724/ What was that bright flash seen in sky above Washington state? What we know #AmericanMeteorSociety #BrightFireball #BrightFlash #BritishColumbia #Éire #IE #Ireland #MeteorShowers #PacificNorthwest #Science #Space #WashingtonState

https://www.europesays.com/ie/446925/ The Lyrids Peak Tonight. Here’s How to Catch Spring’s First Meteor Shower #AmateurAstronomy #Éire #IE #Ireland #MeteorShowers #Science #Space

https://www.europesays.com/ie/429806/ Scientist Spots New Meteor Shower Linked to a Disintegrating Asteroid #Astronomy #Éire #IE #Ireland #MeteorShowers #Science #Space

#Quadrantid #MeteorShower peaks this week: How to see the first 'shooting' stars of the year. Via @live_science #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #Quadrantids #MeteorShowers #meteor #meteors #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Quadrantid meteor shower peaks...

The Leonid meteor shower 2025 peaks soon. Here’s what to know.

If you missed the peaks for the Northern and…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #Astronomy #Central #CentralRegion #east #EastRegion #meteor #meteorshowers #Modular #ModularStory #NASA #Network #Networktrending #Neutral #Outer #OuterSpace #Overall #OverallNeutral #phenomena #Region #Science #showers #Spacephenomena #Story #Trending #TrendingNews #West #WestRegion
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/297660/

The Leonid meteor shower is known for producing some of the most amazing meteor displays in the annals of astronomy, and it’ll be reaching its maximum soon. Read more from @Spacecom:

https://flip.it/WZ8ZDP

#Science #Space #MeteorShowers #Leonids