Sri Lanka, Aug. 12 -- The largest meteor shower of 2025 will be visible from midnight today (12) and into early hours of tomorrow, according to Astrophysicist and Engineering Lecturer Gihan Weerasekera.

He explained that this meteor shower, known as the Perseids, is named after the Perseus constellation in which it appears.

The phenomenon will be best observed from the northern sky at around 5:00 a.m. tomorrow, according to experts.

"The special feature of this meteor shower is that around 100 meteors can be seen in an hour, which is considered a large number. Such high meteor counts are rare and occur only in a few meteor showers," Astrophysicist Gihan Weerasekera said.

The Perseus constellation generally becomes visible above the ho...