Video | Scenes of the `Tau Herculids` meteor shower that occurred for the first time at dawn on Tuesday

Weather of Arabia - A new meteor shower lit up the sky of the Earth in a dazzling show at dawn on Tuesday (May 31), although it did not amount to a "meteor storm" as astronomers had hoped.

The peak of the meteor shower "Tau Herculids" or "Tau Hercules" reached about 1:30 EST (05:30 GMT), and about 10-25 meteors were seen per hour, when it penetrated the remnants of Comet 73P / Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (also known as SW 3) Earth's atmosphere The impact of Earth's passage through the rocky detritus (small grains of dirt) left behind by a comet.

It is noteworthy that most Arab countries could not see the meteors because the sun rose in them before the peak time, and the meteors were seen in countries where this time was night for them, which is a large part of North and South America as well as part of West Africa and Western Europe.

This is a video of cameras from several locations documenting the passage of the "Tau Herculids" through the sky of the Earth, some of the meteors had a long, bright tail, and some were faint:

While the world has not seen a "meteor storm" (at a rate of up to 1,000 meteors per hour), the meteor shower has produced enough luminous meteors to attract attention around the world, and NASA has previously confirmed that the storm will only occur if the debris is moving faster from 321 km / h.

For more: A possible meteor storm on Monday/Tuesday night, raining about a thousand meteors per hour.

NASA said in a statement that it spotted comet SW3 and it broke into about 70 pieces when it passed close to Earth's orbit in 2006, and it has continued to fragment further since then, and it was not clear whether the debris would hit the Earth's atmosphere at a fast enough speed to cause a meteor shower, so There was a margin of inaccuracy as it was the first time that Earth had passed through the area of debris left by this comet.

(An infrared image from a NASA telescope shows Comet 73P/SW after it has disintegrated. The flame-like objects are the comet's fragments and tails, while the comet's path containing dust and dirt particles is the dividing line between the fragments.)

It is reported that the Earth witnesses about 30 meteor showers every year, which occur when the Earth crosses the debris area of small particles left behind by a comet or an asteroid during its travels in space, such as the Perseid meteor shower that occurs every year in August, and the following are the peak dates for meteor showers What the Earth will see for the rest of this year:

1. Dragon meteor shower on October 8
2. Orionids meteor shower on October 21
3. South Taurids on November 4 / 5
4. North Taurids meteor shower on November 11-12
5. Leonids on November 17
6. Geminids meteor shower on December 13/14
7. The Dibiyat meteor shower (Ursids) on December 22