The Perseid meteor shower is back. Here's how to watch.
is back. This year, the annual sky show will peak overnight Aug. 12-13, when — weather permitting — skywatchers should be able to see about 15 to 20 shooting stars per hour in the night sky.
The Perseids this year will have to compete with light from the full moon, which tends to wash out the short-lived streaks of light the meteors create. In years when there’s no moonlight, NASA says, the Perseids typically produce more than 60 shooting stars per hour. But the show is worth taking in despite the less-than-ideal conditions, said Bill Cooke, head of NASA's meteoroid environment office at the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a well-known meteor expert."That's still more [meteors] than any shower you'll see except for the Geminids," he said, adding that the
."It's still worth going out to look at the Perseids. It just won't be as good because of the moonlight.", which returns each December, is the only shower that produces meteors at a higher rate than the Perseids, Cooke said.
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