tonight, you may want to head outside for one of the most active meeting showers of the, year which peaks tonight. the washington post points out that the jarred meteor showers expected to produce dozens of shooting stars every hour. eminent meteors are named after the constellation gemini and are known for the glowing long tails, appearing green, purple, and amber. the post explains, quote, despite how bright they appear, most meteors are no longer that than the size of the grain of puffed rice. they form from debris left in the wake of since departed comets or asteroids, which earth plows through with the same time every year on its annual orbit around the sun. in the case of germinated s, the source of the debris is 3200 faith on and pictured driving through a swarm of bugs and that is sort of how earth sweeps through the debris. fields bundle up if you need to
the last thing before we go tonight, you may want to head outside for one of the most active meteor showers of the year, which peaks tonight. the washington post points out the geminid meteor shower is expected to produce dozens of meet yore showers every year, named after the constellation gemini, known for their long tails, appearing green and amber. the post explains despite how bright they appear most meet yoers are no larger than a grain of race. they form from departed comets or asteroids which earth plows through at the same time every year in its annual orbit around the sun. the source of the debris is a 3.6 mile wide asteroid known as