Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter and experienced stargazer who covers the night sky, astro-tourism, the northern lights and space exploration. He received the 2023 Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division and is the author of A Stargazing Program for Beginners. Writing for Forbes.
northern lights on the dyke to the North Sea near Hagermarsch in East Frisia on 13.08.2024. Photo: Matthias Balk/dpa Sky-watchers across the world were teated to a rare display of “ shooting stars ” and northern lights on the weekend as the peak of the annual
G2 geomagnetic storms were predicted for Aug. 9, 10 and 11 in the wake of coronal mass ejections from the sun earlier in the week. Aurora were sighted as far south as California.shooting star burns up over a bale of straw in the sky. Named after the constellation Perseus, from which they appear to emanate, the Perseids result from Earth passing through a dense cloud of dust and debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle, which last visited the inner solar system in 1992.
, the Perseids were written about for the first time in the modern age in the 1830’s by three independent discoverers, though they were likely witnessed for centuries before that. The Perseids are known as the burning “Tears of St. Lawrence” in some cultures because they occur very close to an annual saint's day on Aug. 10. However, the link between the frequently observed meteor shower and 109P/Swift–Tuttle wasn’t noticed until 1862 by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli.Perseids strike Earth in front of the background stars of the constellation Perseus. This radiant point must be high in the night sky for many “shooting stars” to be witnessed.
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