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A meteor streaks across a star-filled sky above Spruce Knob, West Virginia, in a 30-second NASA photograph from August 2016 — NASA image, credited for editorial use: NASA/Bill Ingalls; the photograph shows a 2016 Perseid meteor, not the 2026 July showers

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Double meteor shower 2026: why the brightest streak may be the rarest

Two meteor showers peak around 30 and 31 July, but a nearly full Moon will erase many faint streaks. Here is when to look and what you may actually see.

28 July 2026 · 7 min readRead story →

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