This year’s Perseid meteor shower will be especially flashy

A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky in 2010 over the Very Large Telescope in Chile. This year’s shower could produce up to 200 meteors per hour.
S. Guisard/ESO
A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky in 2010 over the Very Large Telescope in Chile. This year’s shower could produce up to 200 meteors per hour.
S. Guisard/ESO