Many of us go years without seeing a shooting star, but, with a bit of planning and prediction, you have a good chance of seeing a whole shower of them. Luckily for us, there are regular meteor showers throughout the year, giving us numerous opportunities to catch a glimpse of them lighting up skies across the United Kingdom . Explaining the natural phenomenon, Dr Ashley King from the Natural History Museum told Mirror Online : "Meteors (often called shooting stars) are the bright streaks of