Tag: shooting stars

Here are the most beautiful and suggestive “shooting stars” of 2020 A shooting star is the trail that forms in the sky when a meteor (an extraterrestrial rock) enters our atmosphere and due to the friction with the latter, the meteor ignites by tracing a luminous strip above our heads. The meteors in question can […]

Still smoky hypotheses attribute the Ursid meteor shower to the comet Tuttle.  The last meteor shower of the year, will sail our skies in the second half of December 2019. That’s how to observe Ursids. Ursids’ main features With a ZHR of 10, therefore not very high, we are preparing to witness the latest meteoric […]

The sky of December 2019: constellations, conjunctions, shooting stars… With the winter solstice leading the way towards the season that sees the constellation of Orion in the northern skies as the protagonist, the sky of December 2019 will be propped up with “shooting stars”, conjunctions, and the planets that until now have made it by […]

Celestial show of November, are the Leonids, rain of shooting stars originating from the Tempel-Tuttle comet. The meteor shower is active from the 14th of the month. It will have its maximum peak between 17 and 18 November. Appointment with the wishes and with the Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. Also this year the Earth is going through […]

Taurids sometimes take the form of gigantic bolides in the sky As already mentioned in the article on the sky of November 2019, this year the month opens with a flourish… With the arrival of the Taurids, the “shooting stars” of autumn that, together with the Leonids at the end of November, will flash in […]

A November full of astronomical events: in addition to the transit of Mercury, shooting stars and beautiful conjunctions… A special occasion, that of 11 November, which will allow astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts to witness the most anticipated phenomenon of the year: the transit of Mercury in front of the Sun. Telescopes focused on the event […]

Up to 20 meteors per hour, scheduled for the night between 21 and 22 October. The “shooting stars” called Orionids will follow each other in the sky. Falling stars of Autumn We have already spoken, in the related article about the May sky, of the Eta Aquaridi, the meteor shower that we can admire in […]

The October sky with its astronomical phenomena. After a summer full of astronomical events and phenomena, such as the eclipse of the Moon on 16 July last, shooting stars and beautiful conjunctions and oppositions, the month of October 2019 appears apparently less rich in phenomena. However we will be able to admire many beautiful conjunctions […]

Falling stars, visible planets, constellations… This and more on the August 2019 summer nights While waiting for the famous “Tears of San Lorenzo” to express our desires, there are many opportunities to admire the starry sky. Whether with the naked eye, or with telescopes or binoculars. From the junctions to the objects of the deep […]

The July meteor shower: the Delta Aquarids July could only end in beauty with the spectacular phenomenon of shooting stars: the most active among the meteor showers of this last part of the month is surely that of the Delta Aquarids! A mixture of “nostalgia” but also many “astronomical” memories this July 2019 has brought […]