When is the next meteor shower in the UK?
This next one is called the Perseid Meteor Shower happening this week. Most of the meteors will seem to appear from the region of space that has the constellation Perseus towards the North Eastern sky. http://www.stellarium.org/ This is great freeware that you can download. Tell it where you are and it will tell you what you see. Ask it where something is and it will show you. This FREE program will show you exactly where to look in the sky to find the constellation, Perseus, in the North Eastern sky. This program will answer questions like this for you for many years to come. There are hundreds of meteors that streak through the atmosphere of the earth each and every day and night. There are times when the earth passes through what was the path of a comet and our atmosphere will pick up a lot of tiny specks of dust left behind from that comet. When that happens, it is called a meteor shower. There are many meteor showers every ye
