Next Month, Watch The Maine Skies Light Up During One Of The Best Meteor Showers of The Year
The night sky in Maine is beautiful all throughout the year. When the evening is clear and it’s warm enough to lay on your back and gaze upwards, there’s no shortage of the things you can see dancing above. Of course, you don’t need a warm night to stargaze and that’s a good thing because the next few weeks are set to bring one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year and it’s going to be visible right here.
At its peak, the Earth will rotate in a way that turns Maine towns including Portland right in the direction of the incoming meteors. This will seemingly increase the number of that look to be raining down towards the ground. This a very cool look!
But at other times throughout the month, we'll see fewer meteors in the sky. The good news? The ones we do see will appear to come through the sky at an oblique angle, which means we'll be able to see them for a longer period of time before they seem to burn away.
For a good view of what you’ll be looking for, check out this video of last year’s Quadrantid meteor shower:
You can learn more about the meteor shower and enter your own location for specifics on viewing here. And you can always visit the NASA site to learn even more about the night sky and how we’re working to explore it.
Did you know the Northern Lights are visible in Maine at certain times during the year? It is! And the dancing night sky in Maine was captured in all its splendor in this amazing video!
