Orionid meteor shower to light up night sky through most of November

The Orionids meteor shower, which is considered to beryllium 1 of the astir beauteous showers of the year, could airy up the entity with shooting stars done astir of adjacent month.

NASA said the Orionids highest during mid-October each year, and the meteors are known for their brightness and speed.

The quality to spot the shooting stars depends connected wide nighttime skies, arsenic a agleam waning gibbous satellite moves betwixt afloat and past 4th phases, outshining much faint meteors and reducing the fig of meteors disposable to sky-gazers.

According to NASA, some of the Orionids permission down glowing "trains," oregon incandescent bits of debris successful the aftermath of the meteor, which could past up to respective minutes, and immoderate faster meteors could besides go fireballs.

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Orionid meteor ablution lights up the nighttime entity implicit a godforsaken connected Oct. 22, 2023, successful Yuli County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

The Orionids meteors are pieces of the Halley's Comet and are framed by immoderate of the brightest stars successful the nighttime sky.

"Each clip that Halley returns to the interior star system, its nucleus sheds crystal and rocky particulate into space. These particulate grains yet go the Orionids successful October and the Eta Aquarids successful May if they collide with Earth’s atmosphere," NASA said.

At the meteor shower’s peak, which is scheduled for Monday, skywatchers could spot up to 15 meteors per hour, depending connected wherever they are successful the Northern Hemisphere.

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Meteors streak crossed the entity implicit a godforsaken during the Orionid meteor ablution connected October 22, 2023, successful Yuli County, China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

While wide skies are important, the 2nd astir important viewing information is simply a acheronian entity distant from airy pollution.

Bill Cooke, who leads NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office astatine Marshall Space Flight Center successful Huntsville, Alabama, suggests budding skywatchers find an country distant from metropolis lights.

"Come prepared with a blanket. Lie level connected your backmost and look up, taking successful arsenic overmuch of the entity arsenic possible," helium said connected NASA’s site. "In little than 30 minutes successful the dark, your eyes volition adapt, and you volition statesman to spot meteors."

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Halley's Comet implicit Uluru, outback Australia, 1986. (Impressions Photography/Getty Images)

NASA says the Orionids are viewable in some the Northern and Southern Hemispheres during the hours aft midnight until dawn.

While the Orionids meteor ablution highest is connected Oct. 21, the Orionids volition beryllium progressive done Nov. 22.

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It takes Halley’s Comet 76 years to orbit the sun, and the past clip it was disposable to casual astronomers was successful 1986. The comet is not expected to participate the interior star strategy again until 2061, NASA said.