Lyrids Meteor Shower Peaks Early Friday
![[CREDIT: NASA/ MSFC/ Danielle Moser] A composite image of Lyrid and not-Lyrid meteors over New Mexico from April, 2012.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/lyrid_shower-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
The early morning hours Friday will be clear, but with a mostly bright waning gibbous moon, making the peak of the Lyrids Meteor Shower a tough show to enjoy, but […]
The early morning hours Friday will be clear, but with a mostly bright waning gibbous moon, making the peak of the Lyrids Meteor Shower a tough show to enjoy, but […]
The Perseids Meteor Shower, billed as the best summertime night sky event, is back as Earth hurtles through the debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle each August, but RI weather this […]
The Perseid Meteor Shower, nature’s annual late-summer spectacle, is past its peak (Aug. 11 – 12), but night owl timing, clear skies and a waning moon mean there’s still a good […]
WARWICK, RI — Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission landed Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, Conimicut Village will host a celebratory parade honoring the event […]
WARWICK, RI — The Super Blood Wolf Moon, a combination of three celestial events, should be visible throughout New England Sunday under fair weather conditions, but a winter storm Sunday […]
If the weather is very kind to Rhode Islanders Sunday night, sky gazers will be treated to a rare combination “super moon” and total lunar eclipse, a Supermoon Eclipse – and CCRI’s Margaret Jacoby Observatory is open to the public for the event.
Warwick, RI – Good morning and welcome to Wednesday! Here is a list of notable notes for the day. Don’t bother with a sweater today, and thank goodness that the […]
Monday’s NASA launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Antares rocket, with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station has been rescheduled to tonight, which means local skywatchers might still get a glimpse of it through partly cloudy skies.