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Summer's last supermoon and meteor shower take the celestial stage tonight - CNN

Summer's last supermoon and meteor shower take the celestial stage tonight - CNN

Summer's last supermoon and meteor shower take the celestial stage tonight - CNN
Aug 11, 2022 1 min, 7 secs

Named by the Native American Algonquin tribe after sturgeon fish that were more easily caught in the Great Lakes and other bodies of water during this time of year, the sturgeon moon ends 2022's series of four supermoons, which began in May, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.

The sturgeon moon will steal the spotlight of the Perseid meteor shower peaking Thursday through Saturday.

The full moon also lasts the entire night, leaving no hours of complete darkness, which is preferred."

The Perseid meteor shower lasts from July 14 to September 1, and this year's barely visible peak will happen at 11 p.m.

Remaining space events in 2022

Four more full moons will occur this year, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac:

September 10: Harvest moonOctober 9: Hunter's moonNovember 8: Beaver moonDecember 7: Cold moon

Other Native American tribes have different names for the full moons, such as the Cheyenne tribe's "drying grass moon" for the one happening in September, and the Arapaho tribe's "popping trees" for the full moon occurring in December.

Catch the peak of these upcoming meteor shower events later this year, according to EarthSky's 2022 meteor shower guide:

Draconids: October 8-9 Orionids: October 20-21 South Taurids: November 5 North Taurids: November 12 Leonids: November 17-18 Geminids: December 13-14 Ursids: December 22-23

And there will be one more total lunar eclipse and a partial solar eclipse in 2022, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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