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Catch Meteor Showers and Planets ‘Kissing’ this Week – Bay 93.9
This week will be a party in our night sky with spectacular meteor showers plus Saturn and Jupiter the closest they’ve been in nearly 800 years.
The party starts…
This week will be a party in our night sky with spectacular meteor showers plus Saturn and Jupiter the closest they’ve been in nearly 800 years.
The party starts with the annual Geminids meteor shower that’s happening right now thanks to Earth passing through bits of rocks of an asteroid – and the good news is you can see them with the naked eye!
But you’ll have to be up early – the best time to view them is 2am to sunrise, according to Dr Tucker, an astronomer from the Australian National University…
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