(CNN) Earth is expected to pass through the debris trail of a broken comet on Monday night and early Tuesday morning. Night sky watchers in North America have the best chance of seeing the tau Herculid shower, with NASA recommending around 1 a.m. on the East Coast or 10 p.m. on the West Coast as the best times to look up. However, there's no guarantee of a dazzling display even if the sky is clear and dark, NASA stressed. The comet, officially known as 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, or SW3, was discovered in 1930 by German observers Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachman. It wasn't spotted again until the late 1970s and in the 1990s the comet shattered into several pieces, NASA said.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 30, 2022 17:19 UTC