Meteor shower? Or meteor drizzle?
Listen 00:05:28With clear skies, the Leonid Meteors are available to be viewed from November 15 – 20, peaking on the 18th. The Leonids are typically a weak shower of minimal numbers. However, it periodically erupts in a major storm; the 2002 storm showed 3,000 meteors per hour.
‘Supermoons’ Explained- including the supermoon optical illusion.
Venus and Mars can be seen in the evening sky just after sunset. Jupiter sits well up in the east at 6 a.m., in the stars of Virgo, having moved on from its constellation perch in Leo from last year.
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