It's time to camp out, gather your sleeping bags and prepare for a night of stargazing as the Eta Aquariid meteor shower is expected to peak this weekend. Here's everything you need to know about one of the two meteor showers created by debris from Comet Halley.
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is expected to peak in the early hours of Saturday 6 May.
Bill Cooke, lead of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said:"A meteor shower is like a normal rain shower, with 50-60 meteors per hour. Eta Aquariid gets its name from the constellation in the night sky that it appears to radiate from - the Aquarius constellation.
"The pieces of space debris that interact with our atmosphere to create the Eta Aquarids originate from comet 1P/Halley," the NASA website has said.He predicted the orbit of the comet through past observations of comets, suggesting that these sightings were, in fact, all the same comet.Nasa said it will return in 2061 on its regular 76-year journey around the Sun.
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