A recently discovered meteor shower that peaks just once every five years is expected to reach its crescendo this week. Known as the chi Cygnids, the rare shower has been slowly increasing in intensity since late August, leading to predictions that it could light up the sky between September 13 and 15. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Actually, that’s probably a bit of an exaggeration, as this celestial debris field is far less dazzling than other famous meteor showers like the Perseids . As well as being fairly faint, the chi Cygnids are also somewhat few and far between, with just one or two appearing per hour during the peak of activity.

Still, there’s something undeniably special about catching a glimpse of a cosm

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