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Keep your eyes on the skies. Two big events are looming during the next two weeks — starting with a meteor shower that will be reaching its peak this week and a total lunar eclipse that will turn the full May “flower moon” into a dark shade of reddish-orange. The annual Eta Aquarids meteor shower — which occurs when the Earth passes through tiny pieces of space debris from the famous Halley’s Comet — is expected to be at its best during the early morning hours on Thursday, May 5 and Friday, May 6. Astronomy experts say 20 to as many as 40 or 50 shooting stars per hour may be visible in dark lo…