A Meteor Shower Will Bring Shooting Stars to the Night Sky This Week — Here's How to See Them

The Lyrid meteor shower will peak in the early hours of Wednesday, April 22

are in force. From your backyard, it should be possible to see some shooting stars produced by the Lyrid meteor shower just by stargazing outside if it’s a clear sky. The best way to see them is to simply go outside in the pre-dawn hours on April 22 — when the night-side of Earth is traveling head-first into the dust trails that cause the Lyrids.

Judging the best meteor showers is tricky because they’re unpredictable, but those that peak when the moon is down are generally the best ones to watch. August’s Perseids meteor shower — usually the most popular of the year simply because it’s relatively strong and occurs when folks are out camping and on vacation — is sadly set to be obscured by moonlight in 2020.

So get outside into your backyard, get stargazing, and if you’re lucky, you’ll see a Lyrid shooting star or two this week.

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