The night sky will sparkle with “falling stars” on Tuesday and Wednesday as Earth passes through a trail of dusty debris from the Swift-Tuttle Comet, say scientists.
The light show, called the Perseid meteor shower, kicks off each year in late-July and increases in intensity, peaking a couple of weeks later.
On a clear night in a dark sky “you should see dozens of meteors per hour,” notes Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office.
