Over the past three and a half months, the night sky featured very few shooting stars for anyone on Earth to observe. Such a “meteor drought” as this happens every winter, but it will soon end.
We’re entering the spring meteor season.
In April, astronomers will train their telescopes skyward and find fireballs spewing from the northerly constellation Lyra the Harp, high in the dome of the sky.
The Lyrid meteor shower, named after constellation Lyra and famous for its uncommon outbursts of up to 100 meteors per hour, appears within a short window every year in late April.
While meteor showers typically last for weeks on end, the Lyrids are different. Although meteors are notoriously unpredictable, astronomers say this shower will be active between April 16–26, peaking in the late evening on April 21–22….