The Geminid meteor shower will be extremely large tomorrow morning, with a zenith flow expected to reach 150 per hour.

CTOnews.com, December 14, according to CCTV news, tomorrow (December 15) around 3 am, the Geminid meteor shower will usher in a very large, tonight to tomorrow morning is the most suitable for watching.

▲ CCTV news screenshots due to large and stable, Geminid meteor shower and quadrant meteor shower, Perseid meteor shower are known as the three major meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere. Among them, the Geminid meteor shower is the most stable and largest meteor shower among the three meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere. ideally, when the meteor shower is extremely heavy, the zenith flow is 150 per hour.

According to CTOnews.com, the Geminid meteor shower has three major characteristics: first, the color is white; second, the meteor speed is slow; third, there are many bright meteors, often there are fire meteors. One of the remarkable features that distinguishes the Geminid meteor shower from the Leonid meteor shower is that the meteor has high brightness, medium speed and rich colors, which is very attractive to visual observers, and the number of meteors is larger than that of the Leonid meteor shower.

Geminid meteor showers usually visit Earth from December 4 to 17 each year, with a maximum of around 12 or 13 days. The Gemini meteor is bright in nature and moves at a medium speed (about 35km/s). In addition to white meteors, there are many colors such as red, yellow, blue, green and so on. It is suitable for all kinds of observation methods, and it has always been the main observation target for astronomy enthusiasts in the winter night sky.