Two meteor showers will flash across the sky around the same time in late July

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The Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks in late July. And this year, it will coincide with a second smaller meteor shower, the Alpha Capricornids.

Around the same time, the Alpha Capricornid meteor shower should produce around five meteors per hour and lasts through August 15.Multiple meteor showers occur annually and you don’t need special equipment to see them. When rocks from space enter Earth’s atmosphere, the resistance from the air makes them very hot. This causes the air to glow around them and briefly leaves a fiery tail behind them — the end of a “shooting star.”

These two meteor showers are not high volume, but the Alpha Capricornids often produces very bright meteors, said University of Warwick astronomer Don Pollacco.Meteor showers are usually most visible between midnight and predawn hours.

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