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As the spring weather warms up, the 2025 meteor shower season will be ramping up, with two major meteor showers on tap for April and May. The season will kick off with the Lyrid meteor shower ...

One of the oldest-known meteor showers is set to kick off this week and deliver a night sky show through the end of this month. The Lyrid meteor shower is visible from roughly April 16 to April 26.

April stargazers are in for a special micromoon when April's pink moon appears full tonight and look forward to the Lyrid meteor shower streaks and peaks in the sky next week. The April full moon ...

A free light show will flash over South Carolina skies later this month. Every year, the Lyrids meteor shower sparks across the Northern Hemisphere in late April. South Carolinians will have the ...

JUST A FEW MINUTES, BUT LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS. SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITIES. TWO OF THEM COMING UP TO SEE SOMETHING REALLY COOL IN THE NIGHT SKY. TWO SEPARATE METEOR SHOWERS WILL HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME, ...

Every April, as winter’s grip finally loosens and the nights grow a little warmer, Earth drifts through a centuries-old cloud of cosmic dust. That’s when the Lyrid meteor shower — one of the oldest ...

While the Leonids in 902 AD is one of the first recorded meteor showers, observed by Chinese astronomers, the Leonids of 1833 is often cited as the first widely observed and documented meteor storm.

Kentucky stargazers will get a chance to see the full “pink” micromoon peak soon, as well as the Lyrid meteor shower. The pink moon gets its name not from the hue of the full moon, but because ...

The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known, will peak in the Upstate on April 21-22. Up to 18 meteors per hour will be visible during the peak. The best viewing time is between midnight and ...