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Geminid meteor shower: What you need to know (NCD)
ByLauren Silver, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
The Geminids, an annual meteor shower, will be visible to much of the U.S. Monday night, and will provide one of the best opportunities to see what NASA calls one of the “best and most reliable annual meteor showers.”
The peak will be at 2 a.m. Dec. 14, when the shower can produce more than 50 meteors per hour, CNN reported. According to NASA, the shower will start around 9 or 10 p.m., and you need nothing more than your eyes to be able to see the shower.
The Geminids come from debris left behind by a celestial object, and appear to come from the constellation Gemini, which is how they got their name, NPR reported.
While the display peaks overnight Monday, the shower may be visible in the skies for the rest of the month as well, The Washington Post reported.
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Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A Geminid meteor shower streaks across the night sky on the early morning of December 12, 2021, in Bazhou, Xinjiang Province, China. (Xue Bing/Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A Geminid meteor shower streaks across the night sky on the early morning of December 12, 2021, in Bazhou, Xinjiang Province, China. (Xue Bing/Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A Geminid meteor shower streaks across the night sky on the early morning of December 12, 2021, in Bazhou, Xinjiang Province, China. (Xue Bing/Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A Geminid meteor shower streaks across the night sky on the early morning of December 12, 2021, in Bazhou, Xinjiang Province, China. (Xue Bing/Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A view of the sky over Cape Vyatlina on Russky Island during the peak of the Geminids meteor shower on December 14, 2021, in Vladivostok, Russia. (Yuri Smityuk\TASS via Getty Images)
Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A view of the sky and the Piano art object near the Velikoknyazheskaya Battery on Russky Island during the peak of the Geminids meteor shower on December 14, 2021, in Vladivostok, Russia. (Yuri Smityuk\TASS via Getty Images)
Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A view of the sky and the Piano art object near the Velikoknyazheskaya Battery on Russky Island during the peak of the Geminids meteor shower on December 14, 2021, in Vladivostok, Russia. (Yuri Smityuk\TASS via Getty Images)
Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A view of the sky over Cape Vyatlina on Russky Island during the peak of the Geminids meteor shower in Vladivostok, Russia, on December 14, 2021. (Yuri Smityuk\TASS via Getty Images)
Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A meteor streaks across the night sky in Bazhou, Xinjiang Province, China, in the early morning of December 14, 2021. (Xue Bing/Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Photos: Geminid meteor shower 2021 lights up the night sky A meteor streaks across the night sky in Bazhou, Xinjiang Province, China, in the early morning of December 14, 2021. (Xue Bing/Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
