How to see the year's best meteor shower this weekend, with fireballs, colorful trails, and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction

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night sky with meteors shooting stars bright white streaks and one extra bright fireball above a rocky hillside of evergreen trees
The Perseids meteor shower, known for its fireballs and bright tails.

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How to see a double meteor shower on Tuesday night with a chance of fireballs

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Bright white streaks showing meteors headed toward Earth's surface shown on bottom half of image.
Earth regularly passes through streams of comet debris that produce hundreds of meteor showers a year.

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