Listen up, meteor maniacs. Ignore it, and all you'll be is mosquito food. First, some background.
Meteors are streaks of light that flashes across the sky.
They usually last a second or so. They happen because bits of space debris, most of them about the size of grains of sand, burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Meteor showers happen when our planet passes through a cloud of dust laid down by a passing comet. They occur at about the same time every year because Earth returns to the spot in its orbit where the cloud of debris hangs out. Meteor showers last anywhere from one night to several nights running, depending on the width of the debris trail left by the comet.