What we learned from the Leonids

Update: 2025-11-16

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The Leonid meteor shower peaks this week. A spectacular meteor storm in 1833 taught astronomers something about where meteors come from.

Mars is near Antares. Uranus is at opposition. Mercury's at inferior conjunction.

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What we learned from the Leonids

2025-11-1605:04

Aiming at the Andromeda Galaxy

2025-11-0905:08

Close but no conjunction; Pleiades legends

2025-11-0205:28

Events to choose from all night long

2025-10-2603:59

New moon meteor shower

2025-10-1905:33

Mars passes a quadruple star system; try to catch Comet Lemmon

2025-10-1206:07

Saturn Nebula

2025-10-0505:27

Deep sky sights in the celestial swan

2025-09-2804:08

Class divisions and meteor showers

2025-08-2404:57

Here's Huygens

2025-08-1705:24

Martian ice caps

2025-08-1005:07

Perseids possible already

2025-08-0305:10

The Great Square and the Summer Triangle

2025-07-2704:27

Pluto and its companions

2025-07-2005:48

The fear of germs from space

2025-07-1304:50

No gold star for a.i.

2025-07-0605:23

Appreciating Galileo's mistake

2025-06-2904:28

The centaur and the wolf

2025-06-2203:34

Midnight sun. Twilight, too.

2025-06-1505:28

Mesmerizing Mira

2025-06-0805:04

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What we learned from the Leonids

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What we learned from the Leonids