The year will go out in a bang with two meteor showers this month.

The Geminids meteor shower is one of the best of the year with several shooting stars per minute. Stargazers will also see the last super moon of the year and the emergence of the winter sky constellations.

“ December is going to be a fun month,” said Bart Fried, member of the American Astronomical Society. “The Geminids meteor shower, of all the ones I've seen, is by far and away the best.”

Meteors

The Geminids are expected to run from Dec. 7-17, with a peak on the nights of Dec. 13 and 14 when 120 to 150 shooting stars are expected each hour. The meteors are bright, fast and white, but sometimes they are greenish because they contain magnesium and nickel which turn green when they burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere.

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