The night sky has an exciting and rare lineup this weekend, with the peak of the chi Cygnid meteor shower expected on Sunday, putting on a once every five-year show.

Normally, skygazers have a long wait between the Perseids in August and Orionid meteor showers in October. Enter, the recently discovered chi Cygnids. NASA and SETI Institute planetary astronomer Peter Jenniskens, who runs the cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance project, first discovered the chi Cygnids. The surveillance program in northern California is designed to confirm meteor showers.

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These class III meteors have been spotted since 2010 and about every 5 years in mid-September.

According to Jenniskens and other scientists with NASA and the SETI Institute

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