It’s said that if you catch one in the night sky the universe might grant you a wish. On any given night, shooting stars are infrequent, but you can increase your odds by shotgunning wishes during a meteor shower.

Look up and be dumbstruck with wonder: the Lyrid meteor shower will grace the skies this month. Records of this celestial shower date back 2,700 years. Citizens of ancient China may have been speaking of the Lyrid shower when they witnessed meteors “falling like rain” back in 687 BCE.

Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere are in for a treat this week! The annual Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known, will peak on the night o