If you love watching for shooting stars , tonight will be one of the best nights to see one of three summer meteor showers that are happening now in Georgia's skies.

Tonight is not only the last day of visibility for the Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower and the Alpha Capricornids, but will be the start of the peak nights to see the Perseid.

What is a meteor shower?

As NASA explains it, a meteor is a piece of rock or other debris in Space that enters Earth's atmosphere at high speeds and burns up, causing that bright streak you see across the sky. If it survives the trip and hits the ground, the meteor is considered a meteorite.

Meteor showers occur annually or at regular intervals as Earth passes through the trail of dusty debris left by a comet and, in a few cases, asteroids.

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