Category: shooting star

Leonid Meteor Shower Expected to Rain Down on Earth on Night of Nov 17—Here’s What You Need to Know

Every mid-November, Earth passes through a region of outer space littered with bits of cosmic debris that habitually light up like matches in the night sky. The leftover remnants of a comet, called 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, manifest as a stream of space dust, rock, and frozen gas trailing throughout the solar system. Their striking the Earth’s atmosphere results…


Draconid Meteor Shower to Grace the Night Sky on Evenings of Oct 8, 9—Here’s What You Need to Know

Look to the north in the evening sky on October 8 and 9, and you might glimpse several slivers of light shooting across the night sky, emanating from the constellation Draco. Around this time each year, Earth passes through a region of space strewn with cosmic debris, chucks of ice and rock, which upon entering…