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    Bright Moonlight Could Interfere with View of Perseids’ Peak

    A thin streak of green and pink light amid a night sky full of stars. The tops of trees can be seen along the bottom of the image.

    By Jessica Barnett The Perseids remain one of the best meteor showers each year, but stargazers will have to deal with another bright object in the sky obscuring their view as the shower reaches its max in 2025. A waning gibbous Moon will brighten the skies as it rises on the nights of Aug. 12 […]

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