Dozens of meteors are falling tonight.. the sky is adorned with dazzling shows
An image provided by NASA showing a meteor shower in the United States.
Forecasts by space news sites revealed that sky watchers who get a dark enough place can catch dozens of meteors falling every hour, perhaps even one every minute, during the peak of tonight's meteor showers and into the morning of next Friday, August 13.
This year's meteor showers began early in late July and will continue until August 22, but the peak of the meteor showers that are worth watching will be tonight.
And the English version of the American network "CNN" quoted Space.com and Sky & Telescope, which is concerned with space news, saying that the night during which it will be easy to notice the meteor shower, because the sky will be completely dark, which provides an ideal viewing opportunity.
According to NASA, stargazers in the northern hemisphere will have a better chance of seeing meteor showers than in the southern hemisphere, and the chance of seeing this dazzling show that will decorate the sky is greatly reduced if you try to watch the city's meteor showers.
NASA added that people who live at 30 degrees south latitude in the Southern Hemisphere will not be able to see meteor showers at all, and those above the line in the Southern Hemisphere will only be able to see a few meteors per hour.
According to Space.com, if you can't get away from the city lights or if bad weather is blocking the show, there will be a live broadcast of the meteor shower.
The expected cosmic events this year also include a solar eclipse and another lunar eclipse, as next November 19 will witness a partial lunar eclipse, and sky watchers in North America and Hawaii can watch it between 1 am and 7:06 am Eastern time.
The year will end with a total solar eclipse on December 4, and it will not be visible in North America, but those in the Falkland Islands, the southern tip of Africa, Antarctica and southeast Australia will be able to detect it.
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