The Perseid Meteor Shower of 2020 Peaks Tonight -- Here's How to Watch Live

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The Perseid meteor shower of 2020 peaks tonight! Here's how to watch live.:

The Perseids are back! This week, you can catch the 2020 Perseid meteor shower, a favorite of many skywatchers, as it peaks thanks to four different webcasts over the next two days from the Virtual Telescope Project, NASA, Lowell Observatory and the online astronomy learning platform Slooh.

The Perseids meteor shower appears when Earth passes through the rubble left by Comet Swift-Tuttle and peaks this week in the early morning hours on Wednesday (Aug. 12), according to NASA. But you should still be able to enjoy great views of the Perseids on Aug. 11 and Aug. 13 as well if you can find your way to some dark skies.

Perseid meteor shower 2020: When, where & how to see it:

Spectators can expect to see the greatest number of meteors during the shower's peak on the morning of August 12, according to NASA. Years without moonlight see higher rates of meteors per hour, and in outburst years (such as in 2016) the rate can be between 150-200 meteors an hour.

[...] To best see the Perseids, go to the darkest possible location and lean back to observe as much sky as possible directly above you.

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