All about Meteor shower, Parker Solar Probe

A meteor shower lit up the skies above eastern Bosnia on Saturday night, giving stargazers a rare opportunity to see a display of shooting stars with the naked eye.

Meteor shower lights up skies over Bosnia

A meteor shower lit up the skies above eastern Bosnia on Saturday night, giving stargazers a rare opportunity to see a display of shooting stars with the naked eye.

"I think that everybody should see this," said Miralem Mehic, a Bosnian from an international group of stargazers who watched the light show at the Sand Pyramids - an area of naturally occurring sand columns - near the town of Foca.

Tonight is the night! The #Perseids meteor shower, caused by debris left behind by the Comet Swift-Tuttle, peaks overnight tonight! Get outside to watch with your own eyes or tune into our Facebook Live stream starting at 8pm ET: https://t.co/drc8U531yG pic.twitter.com/yV2YMEpprJ

— NASA (@NASA) August 12, 2018

NASA launches a probe to go deep into Sun's scorching atmosphere

NASA launched a space probe early Sunday that will go closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before, the agency announced.

Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, our #ParkerSolarProbe spacecraft launched from @NASAKennedy at 3:31am ET to begin its journey to the Sun and uncover solar mysteries. Details: https://t.co/5O4r9xljva pic.twitter.com/JXerO4H86x

— NASA (@NASA) August 12, 2018

The craft will endure extreme heat while zooming through the solar corona to study the Sun's outer atmosphere that gives rise to the solar winds.

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