NASA detects the fireballs of the Perseid meteor showers

ArabiaWeather - NASA's All-Sky Fireball Network captured images of Perseid meteors scattered across the sky on Saturday and Sunday 8 and 9 August, which culminated on Tuesday / Wednesday night.

The Perseids meteor showers are created annually by the comet Comet Swift-Tuttle, which has been in orbit for thousands of years, and its orbit around the sun lasts 133 years.

It is known that showers are the product of particles of dust and rocks, some of which are the size of grains of sand, that the comet leaves behind when it approaches the sun. The meteors appear to emanate from the constellation Perseus.

The Astronomical Society in Jeddah stated that the preliminary statistics from the International Meteor Organization indicated that the Perseids meteor shower reached its peak during the early hours of Wednesday dawn, August 12, 2020, at about 100 meteors an hour.

She added that meteor activity begins to decline with the exit of the earth from the dust torrent of comet (109P / Swift-Total).

Stargazers will be able to observe some Perseid showers in the coming days, if the sky is clear, until August 24.