A “very rare” meteor shower is set to light up Northland’s sky tonight, with those in the east predicted to have the best view of the phenomenon. Hundreds of shooting stars are expected to ...

As a bonus, it’s possible that Earth will encounter a debris stream from comet 46P/Wirtanen on December 10-12, according to Universe Today. This one’s worth making a plan to observe.

With all the attention given to the bright, passing comet 46P/Wirtanen, we sometimes forget that such minor planetary bodies are very likely to be ubiquitous throughout the cosmos. After ...

Later, this celestial body won’t be observed from the Earth. The Wirtanen comet (46P/Wirtanen) with a 1.2-km nucleus was discovered on January 17, 1948 by American Carl Wirtanen.