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Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks tonight: How to watch the sizzling show - CNET
May 05, 2021 30 secs

A few weeks after the Lyrids lit up the night sky, the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower is putting on its own spectacular show.

The source of the show is Halley's Comet, one of the more famous space snowballs around, especially for Gen Xers and older millennials who might remember its last tear through the inner solar system in 1986.

The shower officially became active around April 19, according to the American Meteor Society, and could produce visible meteors through most of May.

AMS predicts that the shower could produce 10 to 30 meteors per hour in the hours leading up to dawn during that week-long stretch.

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