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Venus and Jupiter visible to the naked eye as summer's best meteor shower peaks © France 24

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Issued on: 12/08/2025 - 19:11

Summer's most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, is about to peak. All the while, Venus and Jupiter will converge in the sky, overlapping like a very bright star. To learn more about this phenomenon and the art of stargazing, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza welcomes Walter Stoddard, Senior Scientist at the Ontario Science Centre.

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