The skies of Illinois will see four meteor showers this November

With the year drawing to a close, we’re running out of things to distract ourselves from the fact that 2020 is the strangest year ever. We have Thanksgiving and Christmas, but we need more. We watched all the shows, made all the recipes, did all the workouts at home. We’re bored!

But now we have some astronomical phenomena to look forward to this month. The Illinois sky will light up with four meteor showers. According to Onlyinyourstate –

This November the stars will line up and bring together four different meteor showers: the Orionids, Southern Taurids, Northern Taurids and Leonids.

So the Orionids are normally at the end of October, but have actually extended into the first week of November. That’s when the other three will happen –

You could even turn it into a science class at home about meteor showers. Tell the kids they can stay up late / wake up early to see it and you can learn all about them. One of the best parts of stargazing is that you never know what you will see.

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In 2007, for example, Illinois residents saw this beautiful fireball fall on Lake Michigan. This is the kind of show worth losing some sleep for.

So mark your calendars, because we have a month full of Illinois meteor shower!

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