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Australians have been treated with a rare sighting of a meteor shower, which lit up night skies ... “I thought it was lightning,” one witness wrote on social media. Others described seeing ...
The annual Lyrids Meteor Shower ... The meteors heat up, and "super-heat" the air around them, the RAS said, leading to streaks of light visible from Earth. The Lyrids shower peaks in April ...
The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest annual meteor showers known to humankind, will once again grace Earth's sky this week. This year, the meteors are expected to last through April 25.
Astronomy fans will be craning their necks upwards over the next few weeks as the Lyrids meteor ... glow of heat around them, gets brighter so we can see them. This often looks like a shower ...
The Lyrid meteor shower began Sunday evening and continues ... Friction causes them to heat up into bright flashes of light we see as meteors. Lyrids are known for being fast and bright.
(CNN) — After months without a meteor shower ... and that transmits heat. That’s the flash you see,” Regas said. “Most of the material from meter showers, the comet pieces, will burn ...