Comet Swift-Tuttle: The Icy Parent of the Perseid Meteor Shower
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 07:51
in Astronomy & Space
The spectacular Perseid meteor shower, peaking Thursday night (Aug. 11–12), lights up Earth's sky every August as Earth passes through the trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, a miles-wide behemoth that swings by Earth every 133 years.