Sternschnuppen wedding: The Geminids dance in the sky!

Sternschnuppen wedding: The Geminids dance in the sky!

Spectacular night in the stars: In the period of today, December 13th, until the early morning hours of December 14th, heavenly observers can look forward to the approaching spectacle of the Geminids. This meteor current, which is amazed every year, reaches its climax again. From around 8 p.m., the experts expect spectacular shooting stars with up to 150 sightings per hour, announces regionalheute.de . But the enjoyment of this heavenly show could be endangered by weather conditions, possibly strong clouds in the sky are an obstacle to observation.

The geminids differ fundamentally from other meteor currents because they do not come from comets, but from the asteroid (3200) phaeton. Researchers assume that this Asteroid broke around 1,800 years ago and left a trail of rubble that entered the earth's atmosphere every year. The Asteroid, which shimmers blue and measures 5.8 kilometers, flies past the sun so close that the extreme heat may have forced it to lose its ice cream and now create the Geminids as an earthly object, like Oe24.at explained.

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