☄ Perseids

  The Perseids are a meteor shower in Cassiopeia.

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  Type            Meteor shower
  Constellation   Cassiopeia
  Peak            2027-08-13
  Rate at peak    up to 100 an hour

  Physical
  Debris from     comet Swift-Tuttle, which returns every 133 years

  More information about Perseids

  The Perseids are the meteor shower most people have seen, because they
  come in August, in warm weather, at a reasonable hour of the evening. A
  meteor shower happens when the Earth crosses the trail of grit a comet
  has left strung out along its orbit, and the grains burn up in our
  atmosphere as they hit it. The trail we cross in August was left by the
  comet Swift-Tuttle. From a dark site you can expect around a hundred
  meteors an hour at the peak, and there is no need to face the point they
  seem to come from, because they appear all over the sky.

  History
  Discovered   linked to the comet by Giovanni Schiaparelli, 1866

  where it is tonight:  skymap.sh/Perseids