The 2012 Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend and will be viewable in most locations around the U.S. early tomorrow morning according to NASA.com.
The meteor shower is expected to be the best in the last five years according to NASA and the new moon will reportedly "set the stage" for the shower to go over most of North America.
The shower is expected to peak at around 4:30 a.m. tomorrow morning for most of the U.S.
If you're looking to avoid the cold, click here to view the shower live.
"We're predicting 20-30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200-300 per hour over Asia," Bill Cooke, of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, said in a statement. "Our forecast is in good accord with independent theoretical work by other astronomers."
The meteors will appear to come from the constellation known as Leo which is south of the Big Dipper according to NASA, but you won't need to look directly in the location to view them however.
The best place to view the meteor shower is by simply going somewhere outside that is dark, dress warmly and just look up at the sky at approximately 4:30 a.m. No telescopes or other high-tech viewing equipment will be necessary to see the shower.
The Leonids happen each year sometime usually in mid-November when bits of debris falls from Comet Tempel-Tuttle according to NASA. Every 33 years Tuttle visits the inner solar system and leaves a "stream of dusty debris" behind it and many of the streams have drifted across the Earth's orbit.
The next shower, which is called the Geminid shower, will be taking place on Dec. 13. During this shower stars can move at approximately 100 mph according to experts at NASA.
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