It may be a long shot, but"something spectacular" may be coming to the skies tonight.
The meteors may be visible as Earth passes through the remains of a comet that split apart three decades ago and is still fragmenting, CBS Denver . The comet — named"Schwassmann-Wachmann 3" — began to break up in 1995, and its debris is expected to intersect with the Earth's orbit which could result in an intense meteor shower called Tau Herculids.
Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys took images of the disintegration of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3's fragment B. A meteor shower is classified as a meteor storm when at least 1,000 meteors per hour are produced. "If it actually passes through this broken up trail, you could see a lot of meteors every hour," Fraser Cain, publisher of the astronomy outlet"Universe Today,"
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