If you’re lucky you might see meteors shooting across the sky in late November, but the best meteor shower of the year is just around the corner.
. The Leonid meteor shower was forecast to peak on Nov. 18, but the meteors may be seen until Nov. 30.
The meteor shower is named after the meteors that seem to come from a single point, called the radiant, originating in the Leo constellation.
Leonid meteors are expected to dart across the sky once every three to six minutes
Brenda Culbertson, a Solar System Ambassador with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the meteors come from a comet called Tempel-Tuttle.
This comet orbits the sun every 33 years and is named after Ernst Tempel and Horace Tuttle who spotted it in 1865
Considered the best meteor shower of the year by space.com, the Geminids are expected to peak after the Leonids on Wednesday, Dec. 13.