Wasn't great last night, but caught a few meteors crossing the sky in the Lyrid meteor shower with a "Star Trails" capture on ...

Derived from comets, meteor showers acquire their name from a nearby constellation ... tip for properly taking in the show: “Lie flat on your back with your feet facing east and look up, taking ...

The best time to view the Lyrids is when Lyra, the Northern Hemisphere constellation from which the meteors appear to radiate ...

The Eta Aquariid meteor shower — the result of Halley's comet, pictured above — will begin on ... More Saturday, April 19, 2025, peaking in the early hours of Tuesday, May 6. Though beginning ...

Here is every meteor shower to mark on your calendar through the rest of 2025: Eta Aquarid meteor shower: May 5-6 Halley's Comet is a well-known celestial object, and although it will not return ...

Best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the Lyrid meteor shower is the world's oldest known of its kind and reliably occurs every April as Earth passes through debris from a comet named Thatcher.

The Lyrids, like all meteor showers, are the flying trails of debris left behind by comets, according to Bill ... you need to lay flat on your back and look away from the moon." ...

The Eta Aquarids is one of two meteor showers created by debris from Comet Halley. Earth crosses Halley’s orbital path twice a year — once in spring and again in fall. The second crossing ...