On most months of the year, you can look up into the night sky and see shooting stars spewing out from a single point in space called a “radiant.” But July is one of those eccentric months for meteor viewing where these shots of light can be seen crisscrossing over each other’s paths, darting from several radiant points at once.
Such is the case when the Delta Aquariid meteor shower sprinkles down on Earth each and every mid-summer. These meteors are eventually joined by another shower, the Perseids, often praised as the year’s best, thus accounting for the crisscrossing shooting stars. It’s sometimes hard to tell which meteor belongs to which shower.
