Dance of the Gas Giants, Meteor Showers to Grace Australia’s Night Skies

Dance of the Gas Giants, Meteor Showers to Grace Australia’s Night Skies
Geminid Meteor shower over the Xinglong Observatory Hebei Province, China, on Dec. 23, 2015. Steed Yu & NightChina Via NASA
Alex Joseph
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Australian stargazers are in store for a week of extraordinary celestial events as the annual Geminid meteor shower starts Sunday night followed by the rare alignment of two giant gas planets.
The Geminid meteor shower is expected to be visible for a few hours from about 1-2 a.m. AET Monday morning, and is estimated to peak around 3 a.m.