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The display could produce up to 100 meteors an hour, as the Earth passes through a cloud of cometary dust.

The shower should be visible across the UK from around sunset on Monday until the early hours of Tuesday. However, the best time will be from midnight.

The event is associated with the dusty debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years.

The meteoroids from the comet are mostly no bigger than a grain of sand. They burn up as they hit the Earth’s atmosphere at 36 miles per second. As a result, they produce a shooting stream of light in the sky.

Jess Lee, astronomy education officer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said: “This shower is known for a particularly high rate of meteors (up to 100 per hour if we’re lucky) and particularly bright meteors.

“This year, due to the current phase of the Moon, the sky should be dark enough for many of the shooting stars to be visible.”

If you do want to spot some meteors, try to go out after midnight.

Go as far from any streetlights as you can, to an area with lots of the sky visible if possible. It’s then just a case of getting comfortable, looking up, and waiting.

She added that the best view of the shower would be in areas that had clear skies. Also, it would be best in areas that were away from light pollution.

Ms Lee said: “If you do want to spot some meteors, try to go out after midnight, as far from any streetlights as you can, to an area with lots of the sky visible if possible.

“It’s then just a case of getting comfortable, looking up, and waiting.”

The Perseids are named after the constellation of Perseus, because if you trace the meteors back across the sky they appear to have come from that area.

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🌌 More pretty JWST Images… 🚀

Since first opening up shop back in 2006, I have been collecting old photo’s of Newtown.

Thanks to the great generosity of my customers, it has grown to 2,245 images at last count!

If anyone would like the entire collection of old photo’s of Newtown, I would be happy to share them.

Feel free to pop in to the shop with a memory stick, or I can email you a WeTransfer link if that’s easier.

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Tiny Lights, Big Love: Charity Event Posters for a Heartfelt Evening

Popped in to Idris Barbers after work the other night. If you’re looking for a great Barber, this is the place to try. Nice clean place with a welcoming atmosphere. Diari did a great job of making me look as good as George Clooney! I felt thoroughly pampered, at a very reasonable cost.

7 High St, Newtown SY16 2NX.

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‘Man’s best friend’ is becoming an ally of nature too thanks to a novel rewilding project in southern England.

Dogs wear leaky backpacks full of wildflower seeds as they roam a site just outside Lewes. They ‘mimic’ an ecological role that wolves vacated after humans drove them to extinction in the 18th century.

Wolves unwittingly collected seeds in their fur and deposited them all over the UK, creating new colonies of plants. Now Lewes’ dogs are doing the same. This is thanks to an initiative run by the Railway Land Wildlife Trust and the Wilderlife rewilding platform.

The idea is believed to have started in Chile, where people used dogs to disperse seeds following devastating wildfires. Dogs can cover larger distance than their owners and often explore areas that are hard for humans to reach.

Project manager Dylan Walker said: “This has been such a joyous experience. Dog walkers often get bad press when walking in the countryside, so we’re so pleased to tell a story in which dogs and their owners are the stars.”

Source: POSITIVE NEWS

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📖 Current Read: “The Invisible Doctrine”

I don’t usually do book reviews, but after finishing The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, I’m inspired to share it.

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