If you are interested in celestial events then this week is going to be special for you as Tuesday night and Wednesday morning may provide annual Perseid meteor shower.

Earth will plunge into the old dust from Comet Swift-Tuttle sometime between 4 to 5 a. m. Wednesday.

Meteors can be seen in any part of the sky. Their tails will point back towards the constellation Perseus, from which the shower got its name.

Fireballs are also predicted by NASA.

Fraknoi, who has observed Perseids showers for many years, said, "My advice is to give your eyes time to adapt to the dark before you start looking - 15 or 20 minutes is about right."

The first written record referring to the Perseids appeared in the Chinese historical texts dated back to A. D. 36. While the comet was discovered in 1862 by two astronomers named Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle.

Many people consider meteors as shooting stars. But, meteors are not shooting stars.