Perseid Meteor Shower Visible the Next Few Nights

"Every year in August, the Swift-Tuttle comet puts on a brilliant show in the night sky. When the Earth plows into its wake, tiny sand- and pea-sized bits of debris hit our atmosphere at 132,000 miles per hour, reach temperatures of 3,000 to 10,000 degrees, and streak across the sky in what we call the Perseid meteor shower." The meteor shower will peak in the night between Monday, August 12 and Tuesday, August 13. According to NASA, 15 to 20 meteors an hour might be seen during the peak.