Find the dark and hoard your wishes, my babies — the annual Perseid meteor shower is upon us. Among the finest sky shows in our solar system, the Perseids will be visible throughout the US and most of the Northern Hemisphere in the days to come.

The Perseid meteor shower, expected to peak Aug. 12-13, will light up the night sky with up to 100 meteors per hour, offering stargazers one of the year’s best celestial shows.

Southern Delta Aquariids: This meteor shower typically peaks in late July and produces "between 10 and 20 meteors per hour around this (the peak)," according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. "A truly dark sky offers the best chance of seeing the Delta Aquariids, as they tend not to be as bright as some of the other meteor showers."

Meteor showers happen when dust from a passing comet or asteroid passes through the Earth's atmosphere. The tiny particles - roughly the size of a grain of sand - vaporise creating visible streaks of light. In the most dense parts of the dust stream more meteors are visible.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Dust off the telescope and keep your eyes toward the sky; the Southern Delta Aquariids Meteor Shower will be active in the coming days and into the middle of August. It will be mostly visible during its peak toward the end of July as the rate of the meteor shower increases.