The spectacular Geminid shower lights up the winter sky … – TeleCinco.es

A spectacular meteor lit up the skies last night with 100 shooting stars per hour as a fireworks display. Observers around the world could marvel and enjoy the Geminid shower. Astronomers said the weather conditions were perfect for the annual show. The meteor shower could be seen from both hemispheres and could be enjoyed from Macedonia to the USA thanks to the clear skies.

At its peak, the Geminids produce between 50 and 100 shooting stars per hour and you can see them shine in multiple colors with fast and occasional explosions. The best time to see the rain is around two o’clock when the point in the sky from which the meteors appear to originate – almost overhead, near the constellation Gemini. But meteors, traveling more than 22,000 miles per second, are visible throughout the night from 22: 00h.

Calls shooting stars are small dust particles various sizes, some smaller than grains of sand left by the comet along their orbits around the sun. The stream resulting particles (called meteoroids) due to “thaw” produced by the solar heat is dispersed by the comet’s orbit and is crossed each year by Earth in its orbit around the Sun, indicates the Institut d’Astrophysique de Canarias (IAC).