How to see the year's best meteor shower this weekend, with fireballs, colorful trails, and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction

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The Perseids meteor shower, known for its fireballs and bright tails.

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The Perseids Are Back: How to Watch One of the Best Meteor Showers of the Year

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Image of a Perseid meteor streaking over Joshua Tree National Park.

When to watch the spectacular Geminid meteor shower this week. NASA says skies are ideal for viewing it.

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Skywatcher Kenneth Brandon wrote, "This shot is a composite of about 700 frames from a time-lapse I took in Big Sur, CA. I found 61 frames with meteors in them. Then I stacked the frames and created masks for each meteor. "

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The world's top alien hunters explain why a Harvard physicist's discovery of 'alien' tech is likely a false alarm

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Physicist Avi Loeb, right, on stage with physicist Stephen Hawking and others in New York in 2016.

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