EarthSky News - May 5 - Keep Watching the Eta Aquarids

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Help EarthSky keep going Last day to donate! We surely could use your help. Donate here. Prefer PayPal or to send a check? Go here. A big THANK YOU to every single person who has donated thus far. Keep watching the Eta Aquarid meteor shower Did you see any Eta Aquarid meteors Friday morning? Saturday morning is a good time to watch, too. Try around 3 a.m. until dawn. Be sure to get away from city lights. X-ray tsunami in Perseus galaxy cluster Not so very long ago or far away in astronomical terms, a near-miss between titanic galaxy clusters might have set into motion an immense wave of hot gas. What happens in 1 minute Just for fun ... Take 60 seconds to check out this new video from the guys at AsapSCIENCE. Today in science: 1st American in space Alan Shepard became the 1st American in space on May 5, 1961. His suborbital flight took place just 3 weeks after the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth once.

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Keep watching for meteors! Star-hop from the Square of Pegasus to the radiant of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. Just know you don't have to find a shower's radiant point to see the meteors.

An early Eta Aquarid meteor Eliot Herman in Tucson has an automatic camera set-up that catches many meteors. He caught this one Wednesday morning. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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