Not only is 12 August the height of the Tears of St. Lawrence…
Put August 12 in your phone now. Genuinely.
Before sunrise, six planets spread across the sky. Afternoon, the eclipse. After dark, the Perseids Meteor shower.
Four events on one day, NASA says, and the new moon that same date keeps the sky dark enough to actually see the… pic.twitter.com/hA2pPnfV3h
— All day Astronomy (@forallcurious) August 9, 2026
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since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
It is truly sad that social media charlatans must resort to fakery and lies to promote some truly awesome astronomical happenings.
First there are very obvious, glaring if you will, errors in the image of the planets. “Neptune” is misspelled, and there are two Mercuries. A more subtle error is that Venus is on the sunset side, during this season: I just saw it out my window now. You won’t see Venus at sunrise! [Study of lore tells me that the “Evening Star Venus” is invariably interpreted as the “fallen star” of Lucifer, so consider that.]
Lastly, the array of planets is distinctly out of order, not to scale, curved backwards, and certainly not uniformly distributed. Indeed you may see Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn at sunrise (though two are very close to horizon) and with the right telescope, Uranus and Neptune are there, too.
But please don’t take these social-media-chain-letters as Gospel science. There are so many reliable sources. Get your own simulator app and explore. It’s truly an exciting time with no embellishment.
[NB: our upcoming eclipses won’t be visible from North America. Anyone lucky enough to be in Europe, or otherwise in the “path of totality” should whoop it up, because these USA won’t have a decent eclipse again for a long, long time.]