The Perseid meteor shower will peak across the UK tonight with 100 shooting stars per hour.
Stargazers are in for a treat tonight as a Perseid meteor shower is set to peak across Scotland this evening.
Despite their dramatic display, Dr Gregory Brown, Senior Public Astronomy Officer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, has reassured they are only about the size of grains of sand falling into the atmosphere and have "absolutely no chance of hitting the ground" or "causing any harm". Daniel Brown, associate professor in astronomy at Nottingham Trent University, had urged that it is worth keeping an eye out for a secondary peak, should it occur.
"So in addition to meteor showers not being a one-evening thing – slowly increasing and then decreasing over days – we might see that the most active evening might be followed by another one a day or two later." The darker and wider the area, the better chance you have of seeing the display shoot across the sky. Although Professor Brown has warned that you need to give your eyes at least 30 minutes to adapt to the night sky.
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