Keep your eye to the night sky this week for the Perseid meteor shower

It's a bird. It's a plane! Ah, it's the annual Perseid meteor shower. This week, Utahns can look to the night sky to see it filled with meteors of all sizes and brightness levels. Jason Trump, Education Supervisor at the Clark Planetarium, joins Maria Shilaos to explain what makes this meteor shower so predictable... and spectacular.

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