Look to the north in the evening sky on October 8 and 9, and you might glimpse several slivers of light shooting across the night sky, emanating from the constellation Draco.
Around this time each year, Earth passes through a region of space strewn with cosmic debris, chucks of ice and rock, which upon entering our atmosphere burn up, sometime resulting in spectacular “shooting stars.”
This is called a meteor shower.
This particular meteor shower was dubbed “the Draconids,” after the northerly constellation Draco, the dragon, where it appears to originate from. It presents a spectacle for stargazers in the northern hemisphere mostly, but determined observers south of the equator may also enjoy the show. But this year, the full Hunter’s Moon, occurring around the same time as the Draconids, will drown out some of that spectacle, though that’s not to say all hope of seeing them is lost….