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2018 Geminid Meteor Shower This Week May Be the Year's Best
December 10, 2018 | ArticleWhat might well be the best meteor shower of 2018 is heading our way with a peak Thursday night, lasting into the pre-dawn hours of Friday morning: It's the annual performance of the Geminid meteor shower.
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Geminid Meteor Shower: Dust From an Asteroid
December 10, 2018 | ReferenceThe Geminids come from an asteroid, 3200 Phaethon, but scientists are still trying to figure out exactly how it sheds enough debris to produce the bright meteor shower.
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Perseids: Bright Meteor Shower in August
December 10, 2018 | ReferenceThe Perseids meteor shower arises out of the debris of Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last made a pass by Earth in 1992.
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Leonid Meteor Shower: Bright Fireballs in November
December 10, 2018 | ReferenceThe Leonids take place every year in November. Once a generation, it is possible for a storm of meteors to occur with a peak of about 1,000 an hour – or even more.
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Eta Aquarids: Meteor Shower From Halley's Comet
December 10, 2018 | ReferenceThe Eta Aquarids are a meteor shower best visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
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Orionid Meteor Shower: Leftovers of Halley's Comet
December 10, 2018 | ReferenceThe Orionid meteor shower, made up of remnants of Halley's Comet, peaks in mid-October.
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Quadrantid Meteor Shower: Odd in Several Ways
December 10, 2018 | ReferenceThe Quadrantids are a meteor shower in January that peak for only about six hours, are named for a constellation that no longer exists and come from an asteroid rather than a comet.
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Will the Long-Forgotten Andromedid Meteors Return with a Flurry Tonight?
December 05, 2018 | ArticleOnce upon a time, there was a small comet that led to a big meteor shower. Is that mysterious shower set to return?
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Stargazer Scopes Out the Cosmos with a Mobile Planetarium (Photo)
December 04, 2018 | ArticleTurning your smartphone in a tool to identify celestial objects in real time is easy and a big help. The image shows a sky enthusiast searching for the planet Saturn, very close to the Lagoon Nebula, against the core of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Andromeda Galaxy Twinkles in a Colorful Sea of Stars (Photo)
December 01, 2018 | ArticleThe genus Homo is estimated to be between 1.5 and 2.5 million years old. At approximately the same time, in space, the light from our neighboring galaxy Andromeda M31 departed from the point in space where it is located, in the constellation of Andromeda.
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