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What Is a Meteor Shower and How Can You See It From Earth?

Summary by Billiken
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which many meteors are observed during a short period of time, as if they were coming out of the same area of the sky. Popularly it is called “the rain of stars”, although in reality they are not stars: they are small particles of rock, dust or ice that enter the Earth’s atmosphere at great speed and produce a luminous flash. Most of these fragments are very small, even smaller than a grain of sand, and di…
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A meteor shower is a celestial event in which many meteors are observed during a short period of time, as if they were coming out of the same area of the sky. Popularly it is called “the rain of stars”, although in reality they are not stars: they are small particles of rock, dust or ice that enter the Earth’s atmosphere at great speed and produce a luminous flash. Most of these fragments are very small, even smaller than a grain of sand, and di…

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Billiken broke the news on Friday, May 15, 2026.
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