Geminid Meteor Shower 2022: How to Watch the Shooting Stars - The Wall Street Journal

Sky watchers are gearing up to presumption the Geminid meteor shower, which astronomers see 1 of the champion and astir reliable of the 30 oregon truthful annual meteor showers. This twelvemonth the Geminids peak precocious Tuesday night into aboriginal Wednesday morning—though airy from a waning gibbous satellite is expected to lavation retired fainter meteors.

“The moon’s a bummer,” said Bill Cooke, pb astronomer for the Meteoroid Environment Office astatine the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Marshall Space Flight Center successful Huntsville, Ala. The moon volition beryllium astir 75% illuminated connected the nighttime of the shower’s peak, helium added.