How To Catch This Year’s Perseid Meteor Shower

By Olivia Canny
Perseid Meteor Shower
A meteor from the Perseid Meteor Shower is seen over a farm near Tonganoxie, Kan., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. The sky show is pieces of Comet Swift-Tuttle hitting Earth's atmosphere. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) Orlin Wagner / Associated Press
Perseid Meteor Shower
A meteor from the Perseid Meteor Shower is seen over a farm near Tonganoxie, Kan., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. The sky show is pieces of Comet Swift-Tuttle hitting Earth's atmosphere. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) Orlin Wagner / Associated Press

How To Catch This Year’s Perseid Meteor Shower

By Olivia Canny
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Skies above Chicago could offer dozens of meteors per hour Thursday night. Michelle Nichols of the Adler Planetarium tells Reset what to know about this year’s Perseid Meteor Shower.

GUEST: Michelle Nichols, director of public observing at the Adler Planetarium