A breathtaking celestial spectacle.
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What if you lift your head up to the sky to admire “shooting stars” instead of keeping them glued to the TV that floods your brain with negative waves?
There are more than just coronaviruses in nature. It offers from tonight until August 15 an admirable nightly show. A dust of stars scattering in the firmament. These are the traditional shooting stars of August, the famous Perseids. What to forget the misfortunes of the world and the stifling heat of this crazy summer.
Explanations from the experts: holes each year, between mid-July and mid-August, small particles of comet Swift-Tuttle cross Earth’s orbit. When entering our world, small cometary debris knock into molecules in the atmosphere. This shock, extremely violent, produces light. Each debris then turns into a “shooting star”.
This year, the show is expected to be at its peak on the night of August 12-13. “But already, from August 7, the conditions will be ideal”, announces the French Space Agency.
In France, an event is dedicated to the Perseids: The nights of the stars. Find out more: https://www.afastronomie.fr/les-nuits-des-etoiles
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