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Your Guide To Watching this Weekend’s Halley’s Comet Meteor Shower

In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 5, debris from Halley’s Comet will light up the sky in this year’s Eta Aquarid meteor shower. Here’s everything you need to know to spot as many meteors as possible. Above: Halley’s Comet, as photographed by NASA in 1986 Halley’s Comet won’t make another appearance in our…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez May 3

Our favorite photos from this year’s Geminid meteor shower

Last night marked the peak of this year’s gorgeous Geminid meteor shower, perhaps the most stunning celestial lightshow of 2012. Photographs of last night’s fireballs are still rolling in and stargazers can expect to spot intermittent meteors during predawn hours for the next few days, but here are ten of our favorites so far. Pictured…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 14

Everything you need to know to catch tomorrow’s Geminid meteor shower

Prepare yourselves. Tomorrow night’s Geminid meteor shower is shaping up to be one of the most impressive celestial light shows of 2012. Not only are the Geminids among the most reliable and prolific showers of all (NASA calls them “the 900-lb gorilla of meteor showers”), this year’s display also happens to coincide with a new…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 12

Everything you need to know to catch tonight’s Leonid meteor shower

This year’s Leonid meteor shower peaks during the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, November 17th, and it’s shaping up to be a beautiful night for stargazing. According to NASA, tonight’s shower could be one of the best Leonid displays in years. Here’s everything you need to know to spot as many meteors as possible. Pictured above:…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 16

The Best Photos From This Weekend’s Orionid Meteor Shower

This weekend marked the peak of this year’s stunning Orionid meteor shower. Photographs of the annual celestial lightshow are still rolling in (stargazers can expect to spot intermittent meteors during predawn hours for the next few days), but here are a few of our favorites so far. http://io9.com/5951686/everything-you-need-to-know-to-catch-this-weekends-orionid-meteor-shower Photographed by Frank Rinas near Cologne, Germany…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 22

The Best Way To Catch Tonight’s Orionid Meteor Shower

Tonight—actually very early tomorrow morning—the 2012 Orionid meteor shower is going to reach its peak, lighting up the sky with some shooting stars. You can take your chances outside, but if you want the best view, NASA can hook you up. Starting at 11pm EDT (and going until 3am), NASA is going to kick off…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer Oct 20

Everything you need to know to catch this weekend’s Orionid meteor shower

The Orionid meteor shower — one of the year’s most spectacular natural light shows — is upon us. This weekend, Earth will plow through a dense stream of celestial debris given off by Halley’s Comet. These fragments of Halley will collide with the planet’s atmosphere at speeds approaching 150,000 miles per hour, setting the night…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 19

The Best Meteor Shower of the Year Is Happening This Weekend—Here’s How to Watch It

This weekend, from August 11th to the 13th, the Perseid Meteor Shower will fill the sky with hundreds of shooting stars. According to NASA, this year’s Perseid Shower is even more special because Jupiter, Venus and the crescent Moon are aligning while stars streak the night. NASA says: On August 11th, a 33% crescent Moon…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan Aug 11

How to catch this weekend’s Perseid meteor shower

The Perseids have arrived. Widely recognized as the largest and most dependable meteor display of the year for the Northern hemisphere, the first reports of Perseid meteors starting popping up early this morning, but activity is expected to increase in the days ahead, peaking in the (very) early morning hours of August 12. Unlike last…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 10

Everything you need to know to catch this weekend’s Lyrid meteor shower

This year’s Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak between midnight and dawn on Saturday night/Sunday morning. That means two things. One: it’s the weekend, which means you have no excuse not to stay up. Two: it’s a new Moon, which means for the first time in almost nine months, stargazers will have a chance…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 20

How to catch tonight’s Quadrantid meteor shower

Tonight’s Quadrantid meteor shower is not only the first of 2012, it also has the potential to be one of the most spectacular cosmic light shows of the year — so long as you’re prepared. Here’s what you need to know to catch as many shooting stars as possible. The first thing you should know…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 3

How to catch tonight’s Geminid meteor shower

It’s one of the year’s most impressive natural light shows, but just like the Perseids back in August, tonight’s Geminid meteor shower will be competing with the gleam of a nearly full moon. Nevertheless, experts say the Geminids should still put on an impressive show (the Geminid shower is notorious for uncommonly bright meteors like…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 13

Ancient Earth Got a Galactic Golden Shower

A large part of gold’s allure is its rarity. Even so, it’s still 1000 times more abundant on Earth than it should be. Boffins at University of Bristol now have an explanation for this phenomenon: it came from ouuuuter spaaaaaace! In theory, most of the gold, and other heavier metals like tungsten, that were around…

Space & Spaceflight Michael Zhao Sep 10

How to catch tomorrow morning’s Perseid meteor shower

Very, very early tomorrow morning is when you’ll catch the Perseid meteor shower, the largest meteor display of the year. The bad news is that it’s also a full moon tonight, which is going to cut down significantly on the visibility of all but the brightest shooting stars. But don’t despair! Here’s what you need…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 12

How To Watch Tonight’s Leonid Meteor Shower

Every fall, meteors bombard our skies in a symphony of light and speed. It’s the Leonid meteor shower, and tonight’s your last chance to experience it for twelve long months. Here’s how to do it. The map above, from stardate.org, shows you the the best place to position yourself for prime meteor peeping: your best…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Barrett Nov 17

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Motorola Scares the Crap Out of Children, Pets…Meteor Shower Visible in Just a Few Hours…Drawn Models Wearing Novelty Earbuds Look Appropriately Sad…Disney Tries to Curtail Piracy With Universal Download Code… Motorola sent out a teaser for their upcoming Verizon Android phone, the Droid, and it uses Verizon’s new tagline, “In a world of doesn’t, Droid…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 21

Perseid Meteors Shower the Sky

Didn’t get a chance to see this week’s Perseid meteor shower? Amateur and professor astronomy photographers have captured images of the shooting meteors from all over the world. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year when the Earth passes into a cloud of debris trailing behind the comet Swift-Tuttle. The shower has already passed its…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 14

Purple Rain

This year’s Geminid meteor shower looks all purple and neon, like an old Prince video. But we’re sure the asteroid/ex-comet 3200 Phaeton never meant to cause us any sorrow by throwing off debris every December. That’s a peak from the Seven Sisters rock formation in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada in the…

io9 Charliejane Dec 14

Your Guide To Watching this Weekend’s Halley’s Comet Meteor Shower

Our favorite photos from this year’s Geminid meteor shower

Everything you need to know to catch tomorrow’s Geminid meteor shower

Everything you need to know to catch tonight’s Leonid meteor shower

The Best Photos From This Weekend’s Orionid Meteor Shower

The Best Way To Catch Tonight’s Orionid Meteor Shower

Everything you need to know to catch this weekend’s Orionid meteor shower

The Best Meteor Shower of the Year Is Happening This Weekend—Here’s How to Watch It

How to catch this weekend’s Perseid meteor shower

Everything you need to know to catch this weekend’s Lyrid meteor shower

How to catch tonight’s Quadrantid meteor shower

How to catch tonight’s Geminid meteor shower

Ancient Earth Got a Galactic Golden Shower

How to catch tomorrow morning’s Perseid meteor shower

How To Watch Tonight’s Leonid Meteor Shower

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Perseid Meteors Shower the Sky

Purple Rain

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