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Perseid Meteor Shower Peak

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Appearing to radiate from constellation Perseus, shower can produce up to 100 meteors per hour, which are fast, bright and frequently leave persistent trains.

Parker Solar Probe Marks Another Year in Space

Heliocentric Orbit

NASA craft surpasses another full year in space today, having launched Aug 12, 2018; probe  came within ~6.16M km of the Sun on Dec 24, 2024 which is ~7 times closer than any prior spacecraft, traveling faster than any other human-made object at ~692,000 km/hr.