Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky ... below the equator. Shooting stars from the Ursa Major shower can appear anywhere in the sky, so you don't have to do anything ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Where do shooting stars come from? It’s long been known that meteors are caused by meteorites striking Earth’s atmosphere ...

Videos posted on social media show what appears to be a meteor flying over England in the early hours of Saturday morning. Many others commented that they had seen the phenomenon, from locations ...

The three bright stars Alnilam, Mintaka and Alnitak that form Orion's belt are the easiest to spot. Don't look directly at Orion to find meteors, as the shooting ... any other night sky sight ...

An exposure longer than about 25 seconds will start to show star trails and capture their movement as they travel across the night sky, so experiment with timings. Generally, the rule of thumb is to ...

They come around every year like clockwork and that means planning shooting star trips can be done ... which will rise out of the eastern sky every night during its run. This one is a little ...

The shower is active from mid-July until late August and will peak on the night of Aug. 12 ... time when the rates of shooting stars increase and can watch the sky until dawn.