The Geminids are one of the best and most reliable meteor showers, according to NASA. And they are peaking Friday night. 🌠
Published 1:55 PM EST Dec 11, 2019“Arguably the best meteor shower of the entire year – the Geminids – peaks on Friday night into the early hours of Saturday morning,” AccuWeather astronomy blogger Dave Samuhel said. “The Geminids shower is just as or slightly more active than the Perseids meteor shower of August.”
Geminid meteors are bright and fast , and the shower is famous for producing fireballs, which are meteors brighter than magnitude -4, the same magnitude as the planet Venus.The Geminids are behind only August's Perseids when it comes to fireballs, according to Sky and Telescope. Although the meteors will appear to stream away from Gemini, Space.com said, they can appear all across the sky. For best results, look slightly away from Gemini so that you can see meteors with longer"tails" as they streak by; staring directly at Gemini will just show you meteors that don't travel very far.
In addition, cloudy skies may also be an issue in the eastern and northwestern U.S.; the clearest skies are predicted to be from Southern California east to Texas, according to AccuWeather.
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