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When, where and how to watch meteor showers light up UK skies
2025-03-09 13:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Meteor showers are some of the most spectacular celestial events of the year - here's how, where and when you can expect to look up and catch one where you liveMany of us go years without seeing a shooting star, but, with a bit of planning and prediction, you have a good chance of seeing a whole shower of them. Luckily for us, there are regular meteor showers throughout the year, giving us numerous opportunities to catch a glimpse of them lighting up skies across the United Kingdom. Explaining the natural phenomenon, Dr Ashley King from the Natural History Museum told Mirror Online: "Meteors (often called shooting stars) are the bright streaks of light in the sky when dust and small rocks from space enter Earths atmosphere. "Some of these dust particles come from asteroids, but most are from comets. Asteroids and comets are small bodies in the solar system leftover from the formation of the planets. "As Earth orbits around the Sun, meteor showers occur when its path crosses a stream o...
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