The Biggest Meteor Shower Of 2018 Is This Week
Something really cool will be flying through the night sky this week. No, not Santa – the Geminid Meteor Shower. It’s the biggest meteor shower of the year and it…
CORFE CASTLE, UNITED KINGDOM – AUGUST 12: A Perseid Meteor flashes across the night sky above Corfe Castle on August 12, 2016 in Corfe Castle, United Kingdom. The Perseids meteor shower occurs every year when the Earth passes through the cloud of debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, and appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus in the north eastern sky. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Credit: Dan Kitwood / gettyimagesSomething really cool will be flying through the night sky this week. No, not Santa - the Geminid Meteor Shower.
It's the biggest meteor shower of the year and it will peak on Thursday night, with more than 120 meteors an hour visible in the sky.
Even though the best time for viewing is after midnight, the Geminid will have plenty of meteors visible in the early evening hours for any junior astronomers who have school the next day.
