The Leonid meteor shower is a result of the Earth passing through the debris cloud of the comet Tempel-Tuttle. The display gets its name from the constellation Leo, from which the shooting stars ...

The Leonid meteor shower is set to delight stargazers, sending shooting stars streaking across the ... its path around the Sun and this enters Earth's atmosphere at speeds of up to 70 kilometres ...

Stars streak across ... than what you're used to on Earth, simply because you're exo-atmospheric and the sun is really, really bright,” Pettit said. Forget about shooting automatic.