tonight | Live broadcast of a possible meteor storm via the virtual telescope project

Arab weather - Tonight, Monday / Tuesday (May 30-31), the sky of the Earth may witness a new and dense meteor shower, which reaches its peak at five o’clock in the morning GMT (eighth Mecca time), at a rate of a thousand meteors per hour, although most Arab countries You won't be able to see it because the sun will rise before the peak of the meteor shower, but we will be able to watch it live online.

The live broadcast below is from the Virtual Telescope Project led by astrophysicist Gianluca Massi in Secano, Italy. The free broadcast will begin at 12 AM ET (04:00 GMT) dawn on May 31, and will show sky views from cameras in the US state of Arizona and Brazil.

These meteor showers are called "tau Herculids" or "tau Herculids", which if they did occur would be a "meteor storm" raining about 1,000 meteors per hour, at which time the Earth would pass through the debris of comet 73P/(Schwassmann-Wachmann 3). It is a belt of dust particles left behind by the comet, but it is not certain that the shower will occur, there is a margin of inaccuracy given that it is the first time that it has occurred.

"It all depends on the speed of debris left by comet SW 3," said Bill Cook, a NASA astronomer who tracks meteor showers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. We might see a good meteor shower, and if the debris had slower ejection velocities, nothing would reach Earth and there would be no meteors from this comet."

For more: A possible meteor storm on Monday/Tuesday night, raining about a thousand meteors per hour.