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Try Not To Panic But The World Is Going To End Tonight

Try Not To Panic But The World Is Going To End Tonight

We're all doomed, again.

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

OK, don't panic, but now might be a good time to go and tell your loved ones how much they mean to you, sack off that uni assignment and not bother setting your alarm because the world ends tonight.

Yeah, sorry to be the one to have to tell you this but thanks to the not-at-all-frighteningly-named 'Nostradamus doomsday comet', the end is nigh.

The Orionids meteor shower (much nicer name) is set to light up tonight's sky with shooting stars. But before you think, 'aww, that'll be nice' please be aware that many lovers of doom and gloom are claiming it will also wipe out life as we know it.

The meteor shower is caused by Halley's Comet, which flies past the Earth every 75 years. However, we won't see the comet, just the shower and then fiery death.

And the reason this is such bad news for us all is because of what well-known predictor of misery Nostradamus had to say about it, according to the Daily Star. He wrote: "A fire will fall from the sky which will appear in several countries and will burn some palace: the fire will be great.

"At the end of this Moon and one part of another, one will doubt in several countries the conflagration of Vesuvius or Phaethon to come again one other time."

But it is important to remember that Nostradamus predicted the world ending loads of times and has always been wrong.

Anyway, I think it's better to be safe than sorry, so, I'm going to go to the pub and wait for this to all blow over.

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