/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/c2/8d/c28de480-0db8-4b28-be52-8647ba1f1a2d/lyrid_of_the_lake_ann22042e.jpg "Look Up This Week to See the Peak of the Lyrid Meteor Shower. Humans Have Documented This Dazzling Annual Display for 2,700 Years")
Look Up This Week to See the Peak of the Lyrid Meteor Shower. Humans Have Documented This Dazzling Annual Display for 2,700 Years
During the wee hours of April 22, moonset instances will give stargazers in a lot of the United States a stable stretch of darkish sky earlier than dawn Margherita Bassi – Daily Correspondent April 20, 2026 3:48 pm A Lyrid meteor photographed in Yunnan Province, China, on April 24, 2022 Jianfeng Dai / IAU OAE…