Leonid meteor shower peaks: How to see it - Fox News

The yearly Leonid meteor ablution peaks precocious Friday night. 

According to NASA, the Leonids are debris shed by comet Tempel-Tuttle arsenic it passes adjacent to the sun. 

As bits of comet debris participate the Earth's ambiance and pain up, they permission agleam streaks crossed the nighttime sky.

Observers tin look consecutive overhead for the shower, with agleam meteors that permission a way that lasts for a fewer seconds.

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A burst of 1999 Leonid meteors arsenic seen astatine 38,000 feet from Leonid Multi Instrument Aircraft Campaign (Leonid MAC) with 50 mm camera.  (Image Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/ISAS/Shinsuke Abe and Hajime Yano)

However, the satellite is astir 35% afloat and volition diminish the fainter meteors.

There volition beryllium astir 15 to 20 meteors per hr nether clear, acheronian skies. 

At 1:45 americium MT connected Nov. 17, NASA’s each entity camera astatine the New Mexico State University caught this representation of a Leonid meteor streaking done the skies. (NASA)

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The shower's sanction comes from the constellation Leo, the lion, from which its meteors look to radiate. 

Over 100 meteors are recorded successful this composite representation taken during the highest of the Geminid meteor ablution successful 2014.  (Credit: NASA/MSFC/Danielle Moser, NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office)

While the satellite volition emergence successful the east with Leo astir midnight section time, it's amended to presumption the entity distant from the evident constituent of root by lying backmost and looking consecutive upward.

The comet Tempel-Tuttle was really discovered twice, independently.

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In December, skywatchers tin anticipate the Geminids and Ursids.