Medicine & TechnologyDuring the peak of the Geminid meteor shower on Sunday evening, a celestial spectacle lit up both the skies above Vancouver Island and social media.
The fireball meteor that passed through Brazil on May 30 is believed to have come from outside the Solar System. This is the third interstellar object discovered after Oumuamua & Comet 2I/Borisov.
Meteors are known for their visual spectacle but sometimes a mysterious sizzling sound also accompanies the shooting star. A recent study dwells deep into the science of a Meteors sound.