The Geminids, which NASA considers "one of the best and most reliable annual meteor showers," are expected to peak Saturday night, and viewers can expect 120 visible meteors per hour, if conditions are good and you're watching from a dark place.

Those meteors will fly through the sky at around 21 miles per second, or 75,600 miles per hour.

"If you watch only one meteor shower all year, make it the Geminids. This shower is predicted to be the strongest of 2025, producing plenty of bright, colorful meteors," the Denver Astronomical Society says. "With the Moon conveniently out of the way during peak nights, conditions will be near perfect."

A single bright meteor from the Geminid meteor shower of December 2017, dropping toward the horizon in Ursa Major Gemini, as seen from Quailway Cotta

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