Image: Shutterstock/Brian Spencer Image: Shutterstock/Brian Spencer STARGAZERS WILL BE treated to a meteor shower this evening as debris from Halley’s Comet passes by earth, lighting up the late night sky.
“Basically Halley’s Comet goes around the sun roughly once in a human lifetime… it’s been doing that thousands of times so it has dirtied its orbit and there is loads of debris,” David Moore, editor of Astronomy Ireland magazine said. “The naked eye is best to watch this type of thing. We ask people to count the number of shooting stars they see ever 15 minutes and send them in. The only reason we know this shower is active is because thousands of people do this every year.”
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