Look, Up in the Sky: Perseid Meteor Shower Visible Now, Peaking in August

The Perseid meteor shower will peak Aug. 11 and 12, but you may have to leave town to see it. According to Ed Krupp, acting director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles since 1974, Los Angelenos may have to drive about an hour or so into the mountains or desert for the best view. “If you are in an urban environment, the lights of our skies are just too bright. We’ve polluted the skies to the extent that we can’t even see our skies anymore,” Mr. Krupp told The Epoch Times. The shower comes from fireball debris shed from the comet Swift-Tuttle, which passes near Earth’s orbit every 133 or so years, last entering the solar system in 1992, according to The Planetary Society—a member-funded nonprofit dedicated to “advance space science and exploration,” according to the organization’s website....