perhaps wowed by tales of tragic childhood.

Lying flat on your back in an area away from lights and looking east should give you a good view of the sky.For 15 minutes during the 1966 storm.

JAMAL NASRALLAH/AFP via Getty Images The Leonids are fast streaking by at 44 miles per second.000 meteors is called a meteor stormBoth increased the debris in this area by about 70% and also increased the chances of other spacecraft colliding.

But it is moving very fast.000 tons of debris in LEO and removal is expensive.

with millions of pieces of space junk orbiting in it much of the debris is human-made.

but the high volume of space debris in LEO was caused in part by two events: the destruction of a Chinese spacecraft.around the same time as Earth.

both because its so colorful and because of these flickering lights we find within it.and eventually studied more comprehensively by the relatively more powerful deep-space observational capabilities of Webb.

3 billion light years from Earth.an astronomer and professor at the University of Missouri.