How to view the summer’s strongest meteor shower
It could produce as many as 100 long, colorful streaks an hour.
From The Times
August 12, 2025

The Perseids meteor shower reaches its peak on Tuesday night through Wednesday morning. One of the strongest shows each year, the meteor shower is best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere and could produce as many as 100 long, colorful streaks an hour.

A person with a head lamp and fancy telescope/camera sits in a camping chair and looks up at the night sky with the Milky Way visible.

Georgi Licovski/EPA, via Shutterstock

Here’s how to watch it.

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