We hope you ’ve been looking up at the sky lately , as December 13 and 14 sees the point of theGeminid meteor shower , one of the strongest ( and prettiest ) meteor showers this year .
Objects burn withdifferent colorsdepending on their chemical substance makeup as they fall through the atmosphere .
“ Most meteors appear to be colorless or bloodless , however the Geminids appear with a greenish chromaticity , " Bill Cooke , pass for the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA ’s Marshall Space Flight Center suppose in aNASAstatement . " They ’re moderately meteors ! ”
The unripened hue comes from the oxygen , atomic number 12 , and nickel content , according to NASA . People have been share their own views of the meteor shower , from what we now realize is a mundane angle of " below " .
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European Space Agency ( ESA ) astronaut Andreas Mogensen , meanwhile , has captured a meteoroid enter Earth ’s atmosphere from above .
" A few week ago I was prosperous enough to capture a shooting virtuoso on television . It was over in the nictitation of an eye , so the 2nd part of the video show it slow down , " Mogensen write onX(Twitter ) . " The path of the meteor is straight , but it does appear wonky , due to my hand movement and the photographic camera trying to counterbalance for it . "
" Speaking of shoot stars , the next twosome of Night is the peak of the Geminids , which could give up to 120 shooting stars an time of day , " Mogensen added , stay on our own pleas for you to get outside and look up .
" As the name suggests , the meteor shower has is origin in the Gemini constellation , which will uprise in the eve from the East in most of Europe . If you have difficulty spot the constellation , you’re able to always front straight up as the shooting stars often cross the skies above us . Who knows , you might get a regard do dead on target . "
There ’s still time to see it as the showerlastsfrom November 19 to December 24 , but the best remaining view should be tonight .
