Earthlings are waiting for the supermoon, and two streams of meteors – Mail.Ru

the First “star rain” is expected on the night of November 11 to the atmosphere will enter at high speed Tauridy, the particles of a meteor shower with a radiant in the constellation Taurus. This stream is associated with comet Encke is a short-period comet, orbiting the Sun in 3.3 years.

On November 14, we have a supermoon is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs when a match full moon with perigee, the point of closest approach of the moon and the Earth, the distance between which is changed from 357 to 406 thousand km When supermoon visible disk of our celestial satellite becomes larger than usual.

“In November, the Moon will be the closest since 1948 distance from the Earth and its disk will appear to be particularly large,” said the magazine.

the next night the Moon will be near the brightest star of the constellation of Taurus is the red giant Aldebaran, located 67 light years from our Solar system. That night Aldebaran disappears behind the moon and the best region for observing this event will be the Central Asia.

on November 16 in the skies again you can watch the “falling stars” — marks the entrance to the dense layers of the atmosphere particles, the Leonids meteor shower with a radiant in the constellation Leo. This stream is associated with comet Tempel-Tuttle, orbiting the Sun for 33 years. In the sky near sunrise, at the same time will be visible in 10-20 bright white flashes, traces of burning particles.

in the sky In the Eastern hemisphere of the Earth on the night of October 31, it was possible to observe the “black” moon. This phenomenon occurs approximately every 32 months.