Skywatchers, get ready! The Lyrid meteor shower is set to peak, offering a spectacular sight for anyone willing to stay up late or rise early.

The Aquarids – sometimes spelled as "Aquariids" – first became active April 19 and are due to peak between May 5 and May 6.

Pieces of debris coming from a famous comet are expected to appear fast as they leave glowing trails across the sky early Sunday morning.

These fast meteors can leave glowing trails lasting minutes and are best seen during ... of the most famous comet," Shauna Edson of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum told The Associated ...

The ETA Aquarids, one of the most anticipated meteor showers known for sending fiery balls of space debris flying across the sky ... creating "shooting stars" that leave long glowing trails behind.

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Eta Aquarid meteors are known for their speed and leaving glowing “trains,” according ... from Halley’s Come from the pieces of space debris that interact with Earth's atmosphere, NASA ...

Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

The Lyrids meteors come from Thatcher, a long-period comet that was discovered in 1861 by astronomer A.E. Thatcher, according to space.com.

The shower is set to peak on 5 May - with up to 50 meteors an hour if the conditions are clear enough. The Eta Aquariids is active from 19 April and will continue until 28 May, although most activity ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way.