Can you see meteors tonight

Now, it's time for the annual meteor shower NASA has called the best of the year. The Perseid shower began July 14 and will continue through Aug. This year, that peak will be Aug. What makes the event so stunning is the shower's bright, long streaks of light and dazzling "fireballs," which are large bursts that last longer than typical meteors, according to NASA. Luckily for people in the United States, the shower is more visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

But, it does require staying up late, and a clear view of the sky. Online guide. Find out what to see in the night sky in with the Royal Observatory's astronomy calendar. Find out more. When is the next meteor shower?

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This means keeping your eyes away from any bright light including your phone — sorry! The reclining back will support your neck so that you can see as much sky area as you possibly can. The Taurids meteor shower is the debris from a comet named Encke, which was first discovered over years ago.

There are quite a lot of dangerous things out there in the sky, like the charged particles that come from the Sun. But we are protected from those things. Mundell is a professor of extragalactic astronomy and the head of astrophysics at the University of Bath. She studies distant objects in the Universe, including the black holes that formed from massive stars, and explosions in the Universe known as gamma-ray bursts.

Her BA degree specialised in science publishing and she has been working as a journalist since graduating in