The first meteor shower of spring, known as the Lyrid meteor shower, will present a night skywatching show beginning on Sunday evening and peaking on Wednesday night. There hasn't been a meteor shower to light up the sky since early January, and this one will be visible around the globe. Typically, the Lyrid meteor shower can showcase between 10 and 20 meteors per hour during the peak, but it's difficult to estimate how many will be visible. On Wednesday night during the peak of the shower, about ten meteors will be visible per hour. The Lyrid shower is one of the oldest known, with records of visible meteors going back 2,700 years, according to EarthSky.