{"id":18366,"date":"2026-05-05T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimabozza.it\/tonight-earth-passes-through-debris-left-behind-by-halleys-comet-how-to-see\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:43:15","slug":"tonight-earth-passes-through-debris-left-behind-by-halleys-comet-how-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultimabozza.it\/en\/tonight-earth-passes-through-debris-left-behind-by-halleys-comet-how-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight Earth passes through debris left behind by Halley’s comet: how to see"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every year, between late April and early May, Earth passes through the debris trail left by Halley’s Comet<\/strong>. The result is one of the fastest and most abundant meteor showers of the year: the Eta Aquarids. It peaks on the night of May 5-6, between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m.<\/strong> This year there is one obstacle, the nearly full Moon, but the spectacle is still worth the early wake-up call. <\/p>\n\n

What are Eta Aquaridae<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

Eta Aquarids meteors are comet fragments-dust and ice compacted over time-that enter Earth’s atmosphere at about 66 kilometers per second, or more than 237,000 kilometers per hour.<\/strong> At that speed, the friction with atmospheric gases is enough to bring them to incandescence in fractions of a second, producing those white or colored trails that cross the field of vision before the brain has time to register them properly. <\/p>\n\n

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