Turn your eyes toward the skies!
As you're celebrating Memorial Day this weekend, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for a "meteor storm."
According to NASA, the tau Herculid meteor shower is forecasted to peak on the night of May 30 into the early morning of May 31.
Meteor showers usually come from comets' debris, and the tau Herculid shower is no different. It comes from the SW3 comet, which was discovered in 1930 by German observers Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann.
"This is going to be an all or nothing event," said Bill Cooke, leader of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. "If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet."
