Meteor Showers
Remembering the Great Meteor Procession of 1860
“Year of meteors! Brooding year!” -Walt Whitman July 20th is a red letter date in space history. Apollo 11, the…
How Amateur Astronomers Can Help LADEE
You can help NASA’s upcoming lunar mission. NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is slated to lift off from…
Observing Alert: Rare Meteor Shower May ‘Outburst’ on June 11
Back on June 11, 1930 three members of the American Meteor Society (AMS) in Maryland saw a half-hour-long bright outburst of meteors…
June Arietids – The Invisible Meteor Shower You Just Might See
I've never seen an Arietid meteor and chances are you haven't either. Peaking on June 7-8, the Arietid (AIR-ee-uh-tid) meteor shower is…
Astrophoto: Stonehenge, the Milky Way and an Eta Aquarids Meteor
Astrophotographer Peter Greig (St1nkyPete on Flickr) had always wanted to go to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, and chose to go…
Watch for the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower this Weekend
An often ignored meteor shower may offer fine prospects for viewing this weekend. The Eta Aquarid meteors provide a dependable…
Bright Meteor Rocks Argentina Rock Concert
Talk about a light show! A massive bolide was captured on video during a middle-of-the-night rock concert in Argentina on…
The Curious History of the Lyrid Meteor Shower
Today we residents of planet Earth meet up with a meteor stream with a strange and bizarre past. The Lyrid…
This Weekend’s Lyrid Meteor Shower: How to See It
Feeling a little meteor-starved lately? Me too. It's been a meteor shower desert since the Quadrantids of early January. That's about to…
Russian Asteroid Explosion and Past Impactors Paint a Potentially Grim Future for Earth
The recent meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk brought to the forefront a topic that has worried astronomers for years, namely that an impactor…