The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is set to peak on the morning of Tuesday, May 6, bringing with it a cosmic light show as 'shooting stars' — and potentially dazzling fireballs — could burst to life above our heads as Earth barrels through the trail of debris left behind by Halley's comet.

As the Earth orbits the sun, several times a year it passes through debris left by passing comets and sometimes asteroids. The source of the Eta Aquarids is debris from Halley's c