How to Watch the Lyrids Meteor Shower

If you want to get into stargazing in 2025, there’s no better place to start than viewing a meteor shower. Meteor showers, or shooting stars, happen when Earth’s orbital path crosses a path of debris left by a comet and that material burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere. Watching a meteor shower is one of the most accessible ways to engage with the night sky. The next shower of the year is the Lyrids, which peaks overnight on April 21–22 and will be visible until the end of the month. Another shower, the Eta Aquariids, begins on April 19 and will peak in early May. These are just two of nine major meteor showers that will grace skies in 2025, and details of when they will appear in the northern hemisphere are listed below—so mark your calendar for these. How to Watch a Meteor Shower You don’t need any special equipment to see a meteor shower—in fact, using devices like binoculars or telescopes actually prevents you from seeing meteors, because they travel too fast to be seen through t ... Read full article.