Lyrid meteor shower comes to skies while coinciding with a new moon, and the celestial spectacle will be visible around the globe.
The new moon will also give stargazers a better view of bright and long meteors.
The shower will reach its peak on April 21 with up to 15 meteors per hour and the best time to watch is from midnight to dawn.
It is also best to find a dark sky area during the peak night on Tuesday, April 21, into Wednesday. Give your eyes at least 20 minutes to adjust to the darkness to make it easier for you to spot meteors.
Make sure that you also have a blanket or a chair so you can watch the shower straight up.
Stargazers will be able to see slower and longer meteors flashing horizontally across the sky with some of them have trails still shining for seconds after the meteor has disappeared.
About 10 meteors will be visible per hour on Wednesday night.
Lyrid derived its name from the Lyra constellation. The Lyrids are dust and rocks left behind by the comet c/1861 G (Thatcher) and the Earth intersects with the dusty tail every year. Particles of the comet are visible through the sky where they burn up.
“Meteor showers on Earth are caused by streams of meteoroids hitting our atmosphere,” an interactive website explained. “These meteoroids are sand- and pebble-sized bits of rock that were once released from their parent comet.
“Some comets are no longer active and are now called asteroids.”
To find where the meteors will be passing through, stargazers can use the brightest star in the Lyra constellation to locate ‘radiant.’
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