The Leonid shower may produce up to 500 meteors per hour around the constellation of Leo starting at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, says Phuong, who suggests standing in a dark, open place to observe the dazzling display with the naked eye.
According to NASA, North America and countries across Asia including Japan, India, China and Indonesia will also witness the celestial event.
Leonids are bits of debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle, which visits the inner solar system every 33 years and leaves a stream of dusty debris in its wake, the US space agency says on its website.
Many of these streams have drifted across the November portion of Earth's orbit and, whenever we hit one, meteors come flying out of Leo.
Reported by Quang Duan |
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