Perseid shower peaks with up to 60 shooting stars an hour

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2025-08-13

Berlin (dpa) - The Perseid meteor shower reached its peak on Tuesday night, offering the potential to see 60 meteors per hour, with some estimates as high as 100 from certain locations, according to German astronomers. Viewing conditions were hampered by bright moonlight, as the nearly full moon rose together with the area from which the meteors approach Earth, the observatory in Rodewisch in eastern Germany said. The Perseids are debris from the......

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