How to see the year's best meteor showers: Everything you need to know

Perseid captured above the Tucson foothills by photographer Eliot Herman

From the Perseids to the Leonids and even the Draconids, an opportunity to see shooting stars sizzle is never too far away.

in a Cnet article by Eric Mack: “Space is far from empty. In fact, the path our planet takes around the sun is full of dust and space pebbles and other bits of cosmic detritus that our world is constantly plowing into. The result of all these micro-collisions can be seen by humans when the tiny meteoroids burn up into "shooting stars" or larger fireballs in the sky. 

But every few months, Earth passes through a particularly dense and well-known field of debris to give us one of the numerous meteor showers that occur on an annual basis. Most of these floating dust piles were left behind by notoriously untidy comets on a previous visit to the inner solar system.“ Read More