The Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers grace the skies each year for more than two months and both branches will ...
The Leonid meteor showers are among the night skies' most spectacular. Here's where to look and how to best see the spectacle ...
You don’t need a telescope or binoculars to see the Leonids. To ensure good viewing conditions, you should go to the darkest ...
Set your calendars on Nov. 18 (probably) for the Leonids meteor shower in the peak morning. You don't need a telescope to ...
55P/Tempel-Tuttle, discovered by Ernst Tempel and Horace Tuttle in 1865, is a small comet with a nucleus measuring just 2.24 ...
Here's what else there is to know about the Leonid meteor shower. Why are they called Leonids? Space.com states that, "From ...
As for the Leonids, a separate EarthSky.com article states that they hail from the Tempel-Tuttle comet, also known as ...
The meteors look as if they are coming from the constellation of Leo. This is because the Earth's orbit happens to line up ...
The Leonids occur when debris released from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle reaches Earth's atmosphere. Although it takes the comet 33 years to complete a single orbit, the Leonid meteor shower occurs ...
Known as one of the top meteor showers of the autumn season because of its bright fireballs, the Leonids started to be ...
Jupiter, which currently gleams from within the sparkling winter constellation Taurus, reaches opposition with the sun just a ...
There will be plenty of opportunities to catch a shooting star this month, with tonight and tomorrow night being a peak viewing time.