Fireballs may be visible in the sky on Halloween night

Prepeare yourself for watch Sky, Taurids visit us today and during a week.

If you don’t see it, don’t fret: You could still see a meteor shower this month.

Starting tonight, Northeast Ohio stargazers may be able to see “cosmic fireballs” as part of the Taurid meteor shower.

According to a NASA blog post, this year’s Taurid meteor shower in particular was expected to be “more active than usual”. Nasa Scientists are saying that this year the shower will be even fancier as this year there are possibility of fireballs tearing through the sky.

A fireball is an incredibly bright meteor that is visible for several seconds, the release says.

The Taurid meteor shower is one of the highly anticipated events of year that many look up to.

Unlike the bigger meteor showers, like the Perseids, which show off dozens of shooting stars per hour, you may only view 6 to 10 streaks of light in the sky for each 60 minutes. But, don’t let that discourage you.

Indeed, the fragments in the Taurid debris swarm are much larger compared to the ones shed by other comets.

NASA spotted this bright Taurid fireball in 2013. Subsequently, Earth’s inhabitants are looking at a week and half period of what ScienceAlert reports to be “good viewing days”. Most meteor showers peak for just 24 to 48 hours.

There are actually two branches of this shower: the South Taurids and North Taurids. Then look slightly to the west to find the Taurus constellation and the radiant of the Taurid meteor shower where the meteors appear to originate. It occurs when Earth crosses the orbital path of Comet Tempel-Tuttle, which, like all comets, litters its orbit with bits of debris.

The Northern Taurids have been nicknamed “The Halloween Fireballs” because they tend to show up around Halloween. This is the year for that to happen!

Taurid swarm return: Model calculations by David Asher have indicated the possibility there may be a return of the Taurid “swarm” of larger particles this year, in October-November.

Environment Canada also predicted cloudy skies throughout the region beginning overnight November 3.

For the people that do not know, meteors are basically shooting stars which get formed whenever debris enters the atmosphere of the Earth & starts burning up.

The best time to view the Leonids is just after midnight and right before dawn.