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Eta Aquariid Meteor shower
According to Bill Cooke, the head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at the NASA Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said “Many of the shooting stars we see this year are actually caused by material from Halley’s Comet that is around 3,000 years old.”
As the Halley’s Comet debris hits the atmosphere streaks of light are visible across the sky. When the Earth moves through concentrated clumps of the meteor material it creates an outburst. The next time the eta Aquariids will outburst is about 20 years from now in 2044.
Grains of cosmic dust streak through night skies during April and May. To really top off this year’s event, the new Moon aligns with the peak nights, so there will be no light interference to obscure the fainter meteors.
Keep in mind that cloudy skies also limit visibility. In North central Texas the clouds veiled the comets on May 5-7. But it should be cloud-free on the 8th and 9th.
