Stuck on our silly little planet in the abyss of space, there’s only so much of the universe’s wonders we can actually see.

But tomorrow, the Earth will get a front row seat to something pretty wonderful – a meteor shower, nature’s firework display.

The Perseid (Per-see-id) meteor shower is one of the strongest meteor showers each year, with as many as 150 colourful shooting stars an hour.

It has been active since July 17 and will last until August 24, but its peak, when activity is the greatest, is from tomorrow to Wednesday.

What causes it? Space is full of near-endless rubbish: dirt, dust and ice. Sometimes, all this ice gets clumped into one big dirty snowball called a comet.

After gravity slings them into our Solar System, they leave behind trails of ice and rock that linger in s

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