You Might See a Fireball in the Sky This Week — but Don’t Worry, It’s Just the Taurid Meteor Shower – Travel+Leisure

Keep your eyes up this week as the Taurid meteor showers bring shooting stars — and maybe even a fireball — to the night sky. Made of up of the Southern and Northern Taurid meteor showers, this astronomical event typically doesn’t produce as many meteors as some other showers (like the summertime Perseid meteor shower), but stargazers can sometimes spot something even more exciting: fireballs flying across the night sky. Even though they sound mysterious, fireballs are just super-bright meteors,…

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