A never-before-seen meteor shower may light up the Bay Area sky tonight — although predictions are far from certain.
Jason Weingart/Barcroft Media via Getty Imagessky Monday night — although predictions are far from certain.
Beginning late tonight, Earth will pass near a fractured comet and into the potential debris trail of the tau Herculids meteor shower. The comet, discovered in 1930 and dubbed 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, broke apart in 1995. Now, our planet is on a collision course with its fragmented, icy remains. "If the fragments were ejected with speeds greater than twice the normal speeds — fast enough to reach Earth — we might get a meteor shower," NASA writes on
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