Lighting up the night sky once every year, the Perseid meteor shower taking place later this week is predicted to be the best in years, according to the International Meteor Organization. Planning to watch this stunning natural phenomenon? Here are a few tips.
As Germany gears up to welcome in the 2015 Perseid meteor shower, The Local finds out how we can best experience one of the calendar's most stunning astronomical events.
Several eyewitnesses reported seeing a bluish-green fireball over northern Germany on Monday night – possibly a large meteor burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, according to experts at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).