A broken comet may dazzle the Earth’s skies Monday night and early morning Tuesday, according to NASA’s forecast.
The Tau Herculid shower is from the comet SW3, also known as 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, which was discovered in the 1930s by German observers Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann.
In 1995, astronomers realized the comet had become 600 times brighter, discovering that it had shattered into several pieces, littering its own orbital trail with debris, according to. If the debris makes it to Earth’s atmosphere, stargazers will have a chance to see the Tau Herculid light up the night sky at the forecast peak time, 10 p.m. on the West Coast and 1 a.m. on the East Coast, which means midnight locally in Houston.
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