The skies shall unfurl a string of colourful Geminids show from the early hours of the day to Thursday midnight.  President of the Spain Popularization Association of Communicators and Educators, C B Devgan told that the show is a spectacular treat.  Because the shower occurs from the Gemini stellar constellation it is known as Geminids. Observers away from city lights with clear skies may see more than 40 streaks of light per hour emanating from the constellation Gemini.

“Our all-sky network of meteor cameras has captured several early Geminid fireballs,” said NASA astronomer Bill Cooke, an expert in meteoroid science, in a press release today. “They were so bright, we could see them despite the moonlight.”

The Geminids are a meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid. This would make the Geminids, together with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet. The meteors from this shower are slow moving, can be seen in December and usually peak around the 13th - 14th of the month, with the date of highest intensity being the morning of the 14th.

Astronomers have observed meteor showers like the Leonids in November and the Perseids in August for thousands of years. The Geminids, however, showed up on the scene in the 1860s, and no comets seemed to be responsible. Although the first recorded observations of the Geminids don't appear until the early 1860s, modeling studies of the debris' orbit suggests that the stream is anywhere from 200 to 6,000 years old.