The Night the Stars Fell

In the early morning of November 13, 1833, 193 years ago, people across North America woke to a sky full of falling stars. Thousands of meteors streaked by every hour in the great Leonid storm. Yale professor Denison Olmsted gathered reports from newspapers and noticed the meteors all seemed to come from one spot in the constellation Leo. He realized they came from space, from a cloud of dust Earth was passing through, and helped begin the science of meteors. Keep looking up: there is still more to discover.

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