Bright Moon May Dim Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peak This Week

Each year, as Earth passes through the ancient debris trail of Halley's Comet, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower reminds us that we are travelers moving through a solar system still shaped by forces far older than ourselves. This week, that passage reaches its peak — yet a nearly full moon stands between patient observers and the spectacle they seek, dimming the sky's display as it has done for countless generations of stargazers before. The cosmos does not always arrange itself for our convenience, and in that tension between longing and limitation, something quietly human persists: we look up an