Thursday, December 13, 2018

Watch the brilliant Geminid meteor shower celebrated by today’s Google Doodle

<em>A view of the Geminids in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada.</em>

Today’s Google Doodle takes its viewers on a short, astronomical journey, showing how the combination of a distant space rock, the Sun, and Earth’s atmosphere manage to bring us an incredible natural light show.

Right now, the Earth is traveling through a trail of dust and rubble sloughed off by a strange space rock called 3200 Phaethon, which means it’s time for this year’s Geminid meteor shower. The Geminids tend to be the strongest, brightest meteor shower of the year, but according to the American Meteor Society, they often lose the meteor shower popularity contest. Stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere tend to prefer to stay up and watch the Perseids meteor shower in August’s warmer weather. In fact, the Perseids were the first...

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