Go outside tonight! Here’s what you can see, where you’ll see the most shooting stars, and why this will be the brightest meteor shower this year.
The Geminids will be the most spectacular meteor shower of the year due to a dark sky tonight.
The meteor shower will be visible from most of the world, but is best seen from the Northern Hemisphere.
Shooting stars will peak overnight between December 13 and 14, with about one meteor per minute between midnight and 4 a.m.
Don’t forget to look up at the sky tonight.
Every December, as our planet completes its annual journey around the sun, Earth passes through the tail of debris from a mysterious rocky object known as 3200 Phaethon.
We don’t know exactly what it is.
“Phaethon’s nature is debated,” Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, said in a blog post. “It’s either a near-Earth asteroid or an extinct comet, sometimes called a rock comet.
Tech: The most spectacular meteor shower of the year, the Geminids, happens tonight — here’s how to watch
