Spectacular showers of up to 100 shooting stars a minute will light up the skies over Britain tonight - although they'll peak at 2am, so viewers will have to stay up late and stay at least semi-sober.
Night owls will be rewarded with spectacular multi-coloured meteors which might include occasional rapid bursts of two or three.
Sky watchers say that conditions are ‘perfect’ to view the Geminid meteor shower – as long as the sky isn’t clouded over.
The best time to see the meteors will be at around 2am when the ‘radiant’ – the point in the sky from which the meteors appear to originate – is almost overhead, next to the constellation Gemini.
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Thank you so much! An old science teacher of mine mentioned a sci-fi book about everyone going blind, and I couldn't remember what it was called. After looking it up, I think it's definitely that one that he was talking about.
Really? What don't you like about them? Do you feel that way about astronomy in general?
I'll still be watching because I'm intrigued to find out what they look like, and it's something that I'd love to be able to say that I've seen during my lifetime.
Really? What don't you like about them? Do you feel that way about astronomy in general?
I'll still be watching because I'm intrigued to find out what they look like, and it's something that I'd love to be able to say that I've seen during my lifetime.
I remember going out to see one when I was a child. I was expecting it to rain with stars, to be like a pepper shaker emptied over a candle. Instead I got "oh, look there's one [boring pause] and there's another one... oh, I think we missed one".
I remember going out to see one when I was a child. I was expecting it to rain with stars, to be like a pepper shaker emptied over a candle. Instead I got "oh, look there's one [boring pause] and there's another one... oh, I think we missed one".
I'd be a bit disappointed if that happened with this one. I have to admit, I'm (perhaps naively) expecting something like the image in the article that I linked in the OP: