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🚀 Summer Star Shower: Watch the Perseids with NASA! The shower reaches its peak on the night of Aug. 12 into the early morning of Aug. 13, and its visibility should be ideal thanks to the new Moon phase that will keep the skies dark. Join us as we stay up late to catch the show on our sky cameras. We will be livestreaming a meteor watch party starting at midnight ET on Aug. 13 on YouTube. Throughout the night, we’ll talk to meteor experts, watch live views of the skies, and answer your questions. We’ll be watching from cameras set up at Marshall Space Flight Center’s ALaMO – the Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory, which is celebrating 20 years of discovery this year. We will also share sky views from the International Space Station. During the peak, the shower can produce as many as 50-100 meteors per hour if viewing conditions are right.

Colorful fireballs are expected next week! The highly anticipated peak of the 2026 Perseid meteor shower is arriving on the night of August 11–12, offering stargazers a stunning celestial show. To catch the absolute best views, experts recommend heading to a dark location far from city lights between the hours of 2 AM and 4:30 AM local time. Be sure to give your eyes about 15 to 20 minutes to adjust to the darkness. While you can look toward the northeast near the constellation Perseus to find their origin, these meteors can streak across any part of the sky—and you won't need telescopes or binoculars to enjoy the spectacle. What makes the Perseids truly magical is their vibrant, multicolored display. Entering Earth's atmosphere at a blinding 132,000 mph (212,000 km/h), these tiny particles compress and heat the air, exciting atoms to release distinct hues. Observers can look out for red from atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen, yellow-gold from iron, violet from calcium, orange from sodium, and blue-green from magnesium. Because these fragments often contain multiple elements, they can change colors mid-flight, leaving behind the brilliant fireballs and long-lasting, glowing wakes that NASA notes make the Perseids the year's premier meteor event. Source: NASA. (2026). Summer Star Shower: Watch the Perseids with NASA! NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. https://x.com/astronomyvibes/status/2087062712660660348

NASA Aug 11, 2026 @ 4:53 PM EDT Tomorrow, a total solar eclipse is passing over part of the Northern Hemisphere, and you can watch it with us! We'll be broadcasting live views of the eclipse beginning at 1:15pm ET (1715 UTC) on Aug. 12. Check out ways to tune in: https://www.nasa.gov/live/ https://x.com/nasa/status/2087281150549000285

He said his birthday was August 9, 1944 (it literally just passed), and that the Smokey Bear campaign started that exact same day. So both Sam Elliott and Smokey Bear are 82 years old.

Deadline Hollywood May 21, 2026 @ 6:31 PM EDT Sam Elliott on voicing Smokey Bear and the cool personal connection he has to that campaign Watch the full episode of The Actor’s Side on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/qwTNOmHTzco https://www.facebook.com/reel/957127417197161/ ———————————————— YouTube Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/2KuVb6L5EbQ Article: https://deadline.com/video/sam-elliott-video-interview-landman-emmys/ H/T @Velcro626

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