The Taurid 'swarm' is still going strong this month, with bright meteors known as fireballs visible across the world in the night sky.
The Taurid "swarm" is still going strong this month, with bright meteors known as fireballs visible across the world in the night sky.
"The Taurids only peak at maybe five meteors per hour, but there's always a chance that one of those five might be a fireball, which is brighter than any star or planet in the sky," said Robert Lunsford, the fireball report coordinator for the American Meteor Society. "Only the sun and the moon are brighter than the normal fireballs, so they are quite spectacular when you see one.
The showers reach their respective peaks at points where Earth is closest to the center of each stream. The swarm results when Jupiter is close enough to pull on the streams with its gravity, causing debris to condense and creating a spike in fireballs. The last time this happened was in 2015, and before then in 2008, creating a seven-year repetition that the meteor society predicted would happen again for 2022.
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