Make sure you look up tonight! If you're a fan of skygazing, then make sure you have this evening free in your calendar.
The Perseid Meteor Shower is set to peak tonight, and judging by previous showers you definitely don't want to miss it!
You'll be lucky enough to see up to 100 shooting stars overhead every hour at the peak of the shower.
If the skies are clear tonight which they should be, the meteor shower should be visible across the UK from around midnight tonight up until the early hours of the 13th August.
The event is associated with the dusty debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years.
The meteoroids from the comet, mostly no bigger than a grain of sand, burn up as they hit the Earth's atmosphere at 36 miles per second, to produce a shooting stream of light in the sky.
Peak temperatures can reach anywhere from 1,648°C to 5,537°C as they hit the atmosphere.
Will you be staying up tonight to watch the meteor shower?
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