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Kingdom skies to light up August 12-13
On the nights of August 12 and 13, the skies of Jordan and the Arab world witnessed an astronomical event: the appearance of about one hundred meteors per hour from the Perseids meteor shower, one of the most intense meteor showers of the year. Astronomer Emad Mujahid explained that the meteors can be seen clearly with the naked eye without any equipment, especially in dark areas such as Wadi Rum, where camps are organized to observe them along with the planets associated with the event, such as Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the Milky Way galaxy. The source of these meteors is Comet Swift-Tuttle, which leaves a trail of dust around the Sun and approaches it approximately every 130 years. Earth passes through this dust annually, causing the meteors to appear in large numbers. These meteors form when dust particles enter the Earth's atmosphere at high speeds, causing a temporary glow; most of them burn up at high altitudes and do not reach the Earth's surface.
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