Delta Aquariid Shooting Stars Will Crisscross 3 Other Meteor Showers in July—What to Know

Don Machholz lugged his 100-pound homemade binocular apparatus to the summit of Loma Prieta, the highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California, in search of a comet one hazy night in 1986. While scanning near the Andromeda galaxy, the astronomer spotted a bright, fuzzy object moving slowly against the stars. It was […]