This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

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The April Lyrids are often a good shower, although the bright Moon makes this year’s edition less than ideal.

The Lyrid meteor shower can produce up to 20 meteors an hour. Credit: Gregg Alliss

The Lyrid meteors peak this week — how many can you spot?

Meteor showers are produced when specks of debris left behind by comets burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. For the Lyrids,…
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