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How to spot the 2023 Perseid meteor shower as it peaks this weekend

The Perseids are a major meteor shower - here is your guide to spotting them during their peak on 12 and 13 August 2023

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Release Date September 12, 2019 10:00AM (EDT) Caption Anyone who has ever peered at Saturn through a small telescope is immediately enticed by its elegant rings, which make the far-flung planet one of the most exotic-looking, opulent worlds in the solar system. The latest view of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system?which looks like a phonograph record with grooves that represent detailed structure within the rings?and atmospheric details that once could only be captured by spacecraft visiting the distant world. One such intriguing feature is the long-lasting hexagon-shaped structure circling the planet's north pole. It is a mysterious six-sided pattern caused by a high-speed jet stream. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft first discovered the "hexagon" during its flyby in 1981. The hexagon is so large that four Earths could fit inside its boundaries. (There is no similar structure at Saturn's south pole.) Other features, however, are not as long lasting. A large storm in the north polar region spotted by Hubble last year has disappeared. Smaller, convective storms?called super "thunderheads"?such as the one just above the center of the planet's image, also come and go.

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How to spot Saturn’s rings through a telescope

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A lime green circle with an oblong purple ring around it in space

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The Ring Nebula glows green in a stunning new JWST image

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An image from Euclid in infrared light taken to check that the instrument works as expected

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Euclid space telescope sends back amazing first images of the cosmos

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Young star V960 Mon with its long spiral arms

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Stunning photo of a young star hints how Jupiter-like planets form

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Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and one helium side

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Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

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Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Milky Way

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Caption The first anniversary image from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it?s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you?d never know it from Webb?s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems. The young stars at the center of many of these disks are similar in mass to the Sun, or smaller. The heftiest in this image is the star S1, which appears amid a glowing cave it is carving out with its stellar winds in the lower half of the image. The lighter-colored gas surrounding S1 consists of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a family of carbon-based molecules that are among the most common compounds found in space. For more detail on what is happening where in Webb?s image of Rho Ophiuchi, watch the video tour and read the press release. Credits Image NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI) Image Processing Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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JWST celebrates first year of science with awesome star-forming image

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James Webb Space Telescope images

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The 8 most dazzling images from JWST鈥檚 first year of science

The James Webb Telescope revealed its first images of deep space on July 12 2022 鈥� here鈥檚 a look back at one year of awe-inspiring images and confounding scientific discoveries

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See the remarkable photos up for Astronomy Photographer of the Year

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How to spot Jupiter’s icy moons

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The Milky Way could contain thousands of stars from another galaxy

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What is the June solstice and what causes it?

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