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In the coming days, the Orioniden annual meteor shower, at its peak, can be seen again, for about 40 shooting stars. It is unfortunate that this year's swarm coincides with an almost complete moon, so it's not quite dark for much of the night and the meteors are hard to see.
The moon below, the sun not yet
lovers prefer to go out only when the moon is below, but the sun is not yet lit. This is the case at three o'clock tonight and Monday morning, when the swarm reaches its peak just after 5 o'clock in the morning. This is a good thing because every morning, around six o'clock, most shooting stars.
The weather forecast also looks good. The meteorologists of Buienradar are waiting for an almost cloudless night.
Named after Orion
The swarm is named after the famous constellation Orion, as the shooting stars all seem to move from this constellation. You can still see them everywhere in the starry sky, but the direction in which they move is still distant from Orion.
Precise predictions
The rains of stars such as Orionids can be predicted exactly every year as they are caused by the noise of space. The Earth travels its orbit around the sun every year around October 22nd, a "scavenger trail" of Comet Halley.
This spatial noise then shaves the Earth's atmosphere and burns at incredible speed. This creates a short ray of light, which we call a shooting star in the vernacular.
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