Cosmic Light Show via Halley's Comet To Fill Skies This Weekend

Hopeful stargazers are in for a treat this week as the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower is primed to light up the night sky.This meteor shower runs between mid-April to late May, and is due to peak in the early hours of May 5 and May 6, with as many as 60 shooting stars per hour being expected this year.Thanks to the new moon being due on May 8, the glare of the moon will be almost entirely absent for the meteor shower, meaning that viewing conditions will be ideal.

This same comet is also responsible for the Orionid shower in October.'In general, most comets shed bits of dust and small grains of dirt, particularly as they pass close to the Sun on their orbits around the solar system. That dust and grains follow the same orbit of the comet itself so in most cases, they are easy to spot and predictable when Earth passes through that debris,' Brad Gibson, director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull in the U.K.

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