How to Catch the Geminids, One of the Strongest Meteor Showers of the Year

Meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), located about 56 miles southwest of Tucson, in the Tohono O'odham Nation on Dec. 14, 2023. NSF/NOIRLab via AP

The Geminids—among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids—peak on Friday. It’s one of the year’s last chances to see fireballs in the sky.

The shower often produces meteors with a distinctly more yellow glow, likely due to the unusual origin material, said Sally Brummel, planetarium manager at the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum.