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How to see the Perseid meteor shower

caption: In this 30 second cameras exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower in 2021. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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In this 30 second cameras exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower in 2021. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

The Perseid meteor shower comes this time every year and is set to peak late Sunday night into early Monday morning. If you’re able to get outside in a dark place, you could see 20 to 30 meteors per hour.

Sky & Telescope senior editor Kelly Beatty joins us.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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