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Sunday 1 August 2010

31 July 2010

Image of the day

A space shuttle, pictured from the ISS, is silhouetted against Earth's atmosphere.

Credit: NASA

2 August 2010

On this day in space history

On 1 August every year, the meteor shower known as the Alpha Capricornids reaches its peak. This is a meteor shower which lasts from 15 July until 11 September. The shower has the reputation of producing some of the brightest meteors of the major showers, with the average magnitude being estimated as about 2.2.