HEADS UP, LITERALLY! Summer's last supermoon, meteor shower take the celestial stage tonight 🔭🌝
Thursday night's sturegon supermoon will steal the spotlight of the Perseid meteor shower peaking Thursday through Saturday.
"At certain times of the year, the moon is at its closest point to Earth and these are called supermoons," said Mike Hankey, operations manager for the American Meteor Society, via email. "It's just a natural point of the moon's orbit. At each extreme, the moon is either a little bigger or a little bit smaller , but it is not a huge difference."
The sturgeon moon will steal the spotlight of the Perseid meteor shower peaking Thursday through Saturday.
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