Known for fast and bright meteors, the Lyrid meteor shower is active during late April.
April's annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks this Sunday night, offering skygazers a chance to spot shooting stars as Earth passes through debris from the comet Thatcher. This year's peak occurs from Sunday night into Monday morning for those in the U.S. NASA Ambassador Tony Rice said the outlook for seeing the Lyrid meteor shower is not great this year because of a nearly 95% full Moon.
And that's just the point in the sky where the Earth is kind of heading towards at that time," Rice said. "And that particular radiant point is pretty high in the sky. When it's low in the sky, a lot of the meteors get hidden below the horizon, but this particular one is high in the sky, so we tend to see a few more meteors.
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