2023-10-20 18:50:00
Although we mostly talk about it in the summer, beautiful showers of shooting stars occur in the sky all year round. All you have to do is raise your head to observe them. Among the latter are the Orionids, whose show takes place every October – precisely between October 2 and November 7. They are, according to at NASAamong the most remarkable of the year.
Their next peak of activity is scheduled for Sunday, October 22. This weekend, ten to twenty meteors per hour are expected. But be careful, you will have to be concentrated, because although the orionids are renowned for being very bright, they are also particularly fast, moving at a speed of around 66 kilometers per second!
But, actually, where do they come from? This shower of meteors comes from the most famous periodic comet: Halley’s comet (1P/Halley) identified as such by the English astronomer and physicist Edmond Halley in 1705. Each time it makes an incursion into the solar system internally, approximately once every 76 years – its last appearance dates back to 1986 and the next is expected in 2061 – it drops ice and rocky debris in its wake.
A place sheltered from light pollution
However, the Earth, traveling in its orbit around the Sun, crosses their path every year at this same period. It is then that some of these fragments enter the atmosphere where they burn up, forming the luminous trails that […] Read more
1697829328
#shower #shooting #stars #peak