Twin meteor showers peak this week with brilliant fireballs expected

Twice in the same narrow window of late July, Earth passes through the debris trails of two separate comets — the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids — and the sky responds with streaks of light that have startled human beings into looking upward for as long as we have been here. This convergence, peaking July 29 and 30, is rare enough that astronomers have marked it as an event worth genuine attention, with fireballs bright enough to cut through even imperfect skies. From Singapore to the Middle East, the invitation is the same: step outside, let your eyes find the dark, and r