OREANDA-NEWS Russians will be able to see a new starfall on the night of August 11-12, he said. NEWS.ru Leading researcher at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, astrophysicist Nathan Eismont.

To see a rain of stars, good conditions are needed — "so that the moon does not shine, and so that there are no clouds," the scientist noted. Star rain is an ordinary phenomenon, but sometimes objects falling into the atmosphere are larger than usual, so they glow brighter when burned. At the same time, there may be traces of Martian rock on the fragments of the asteroid, which still reach the surface of the Earth almost burned out.

Earlier, Russians were told that the most powerful magnetic storm in the last two months could last from August 8-9. Geomagnetic fluctuations risk causing dangerous consequences for astronauts in orbit, aircraft flying through the North Pole, spacecraft and radio communications in the polar regions.