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Total solar eclipse of 2026 Total solar eclipse of 2026
When: Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026
Where: Russia, Greenland, Iceland and Spain
Maximum duration of totality: 2 minutes, 18 seconds
Europe's first total solar eclipse for 27 years will coincide with the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025
Photograph: Anton Petrus/Getty Images Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun—on January 13.
—Marta Musso, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2025
How to watch a meteor shower Michelle Nichols, the director of public observing at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, recommends forgoing the use of telescopes or binoculars while watching a meteor shower.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Major airlines offer storm waivers to passengers ahead of winter storm
Biden to designate environmental national monuments in California
When and where to see the Quadrantids, 2025's first meteor shower
The 119th Congress begins today.
—CBS News, 4 Jan. 2025
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025
Photograph: Anton Petrus/Getty Images Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun—on January 13.
—Marta Musso, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2025
How to watch a meteor shower Michelle Nichols, the director of public observing at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, recommends forgoing the use of telescopes or binoculars while watching a meteor shower.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Major airlines offer storm waivers to passengers ahead of winter storm
Biden to designate environmental national monuments in California
When and where to see the Quadrantids, 2025's first meteor shower
The 119th Congress begins today.
—CBS News, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Meteor shower.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meteor%20shower. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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