Aussies capture incredible footage of Lyrid meteor shower: ‘In awe’

Australians have been treated with a rare sighting of a meteor shower, which lit up night skies in the country’s east on Monday night.

The astronomical phenomenon was part of the Lyrid meteor shower that occurs annually in April.

One of the planet’s oldest meteor showers, with sightings dating back as far as 687BCE, the burning rocks lit up the sky from Bundaberg in Queensland to central NSW, with some as far south as Melbourne catching a glimpse of the dazzling show.