Huge comet looking thing just passed over the Northshore

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One of the year's iconic meteor showers reaches its period of maximum activity in the next 24 hours and is best seen after about 10 p.m. local time.

Whenever the famed Halley's Comet makes a trip through the inner solar system every 75 years or so, it leaves behind clouds of dust and cosmic detritus. And each year around this time, our planet floats through some of those clouds, producing what we know as the Orionid meteor shower.

As the bits of comet crumbs collide with our atmosphere, they burn up in a fleeting instant, producing the short trains across the sky we call shooting stars. Larger or slower-moving bits can flame out as bigger, brighter fireballs.

The 2022 Orionids are set to peak Thursday evening and into the following morning. The American Meteor Society predicts that sky watchers with ideal conditions could catch between 15 and 20 meteors per hour. Sometimes the shower surprises with outbursts that triple that figure.

"The best time to see these meteors is from 1 a.m. to dawn (local time)," explains Bob Lunsford of the American Meteor Society in a blog post for AMS.

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Starlink satellites. Seriously

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