Night-time sky-watchers can look forward to a celestial display of shooting stars on Wednesday night, as the Earth passes through a cloud of cometary dust.
The Geminid meteor shower, which returns every December, is expected to peak some time during the night of December 14 and will be visible until the early morning of December 15. Anna Gammon-Ross, astronomer at Royal Observatory in Greenwich, said: “The peak here in the UK will be during the night of December 14-15, when up to 150 meteors will be visible per hour.”
She said the meteors will be visible in the east of the sky from around 6pm – but will appear all around the sky later in the night. She added: “Unfortunately, the waning gibbous moon will make it trickier to see the meteors during the peak night this year.
