Meteor shower May 2014 will peak in the early morning hours of May 6. It is called the annual Eta Aquarids meteor shower. The meteor shower May 2014 is offering stargazers a glimpse of up to 60 meteors per hour, according to Reuters.
Tonight, skywatchers will be able to see the great Eta Aquarids meteor shower May 2014, an annual cosmic light show when Earth passes through Halley's Comet debris trail. The cosmic light show will be happening tonight and it will offer stargazers a spectacular show where meteors will streamt through the sky.
According to CBC, the meteors that will be visible during the meteor shower May 2014 are part of a weeks-long shower that began in late April. It will reportedly continue till the third week of May, and will peak on or around May 6th Tuesday. Reports say that astronomers are expecting that viewers in the Northern Hemisphere will see around 30 meteors per hour, while stargazers from the south of the equator will be seeing up to 60 per hour.
Though the cosmological show will show from midnight until dawn, its peak hours will be between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday, May 6th. NASA even reports that a first-quarter moon will set just before midnight which will help to darken the skies and set the stage for the meteor shower May 2014.
According to NASA, skywatchers will enjoy the show better while away from the glow of city lights. CBC reports that the meteors of the Eta Aquarid shower are in fact part of the debris trail from Halley's Comet. These actually passed through the inner solar system in 1986. As the Earth passes through the trail around this time every year, the debris bits from the comet are burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere, and thus produce the light show in the sky, now known as the meteor shower May 2014.
Meteor shower May 2014 has been named Eta Aquarid. The name reportedly came from the fact that the meteor shower appears to take place within the constellation Aquarius, close to its brightest star, Eta Aquarii.
For a free online stream of the meteor shower May 2014, check out this live feed from the Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Ala., online after 9 p.m.
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