Meteor showers

Meteor fireballs over the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile © Wikimedia Commons

Meteor showers Everything you need to know to spot a shooting star

Two faint Perseid meteors streak across the sky above Selsey. Image Credit: Pete Lawrence

Beginner's guide How to photograph a meteor shower

Meteor-Munchies

Astronomy and Society

Bake our meteor munchies

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Tales from the Eyepiece: Strangers in the Night

The Geminids is one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Radio Astronomy Podcast Meteor showers and space rocks

Luke Hayes captured this shot of the Perseid meteor shower from the Dengie peninsula in Essex. Luke used a Canon EOS 5D DSLR camera with a Canon 8-15mm lens. Image Credit: Luke Hayes

Astrophotography

How to photograph the Perseid meteor shower

An Orionid meteor recorded by the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station on top of Mount Lemmon, Arizona, US on 13 October 2015. Credit: NASA

How to spot an Orionid meteor.

Taurid meteor over Lake Simcoe, 9 November 2015. Credit: Orchidpoet / Getty Images

Earth experiences high activity Taurid meteor showers