There is no doubt that the showers of the Perseids on the night between August 12 and 13 are one of the most important and fun astronomical events in 2021, as you can see hundreds of meteors in just one night.

Meteors are the result of combustion of rocky remnants in space that enter the Earth's atmosphere, and this can happen daily and you see a meteor or two, but when the Earth passes - during its orbit around the sun - with the dense remains of a comet or an asteroid, this causes a shower of meteors.

It's like driving your car down a highway and passing a cloud of smoke caused by a fire on its side;

The Earth is also passing through the remnants of the heavenly bodies that crossed from here a long time ago (in the case of the Perseids, they are the remnants of Comet "109b/Swift-Tuttle").

These remnants enter the atmosphere at tremendous speeds, up to 75 kilometers per second, and burn and we see bright meteors, some of which are so large that we see them as a ball of fire running in the sky, and it is actually called by amateurs (Fire Ball).

Meteors are the result of burning rocky remnants in space that enter the Earth's atmosphere (NASA)

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The Barshayat begins on July 14 and ends on August 24, and on these nights you can see a few meteors, but specifically at the height of the shower (the night between 12 and 13 August) you can see as many meteors as possible, In this case, it reaches 120 meteors every hour.

In addition, this is not the maximum for those showers, as it happens from year to year that one of the showers explodes with more than that. In 1993, for example, the Barshawiyat rained about 350 meteors per hour, which was a source of great happiness for all its followers in the world.

In 1833, history recorded the largest unexpected meteor shower;

100,000 meteors per hour for the Leonids meteor shower, and it was a very beautiful sight.

We always hope that we will meet with one of those unexpected heavy showers someday.

Seeing meteors is related to the lighting around you (Pixabay)

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Seeing meteors is related to the lighting around you, you can only see so many if you are in a remote area, so astrological societies usually organize trips to the desert on nights like this.

And if you're in the city, the number of meteors you can see that night drops drastically from hundreds to dozens, but the view from your home is still stunning.

On the other hand, observing meteors does not require complicated tools, it only requires arranging a comfortable place to lie down and raise your head to the sky for a few hours, and it is always preferable to share this event with friends and loved ones, so contemplate astronomical phenomena likes to meet.

The phenomenon begins in the evening, but the best time to see meteors begins before midnight, and the number of meteors increases as we approach the next morning, so it is preferable to prepare for a long evening this night, just stay away from the accelerated social networking atmosphere;

Leave all this aside and look at the sky a little.