Sri Lanka, Nov. 16 -- The Leonid meteor shower, the largest meteor shower visible in 2025 can be observed at midnight today (16) and early tomorrow morning, says Astronomer and Senior Lecturer Gihan Weerasekara.

The Leonids are lots of fast and bright shooting stars racing through the sky.

They take their name from the Leo constellation because they seem to shoot from it.

The shower happens every year because of the Comet Tempel-Tuttle.

The comet takes 33 years to go round the sun, and as it travels it leaves a dusty trail of bits of broken asteroids and leftover comet particles.

When the Earth passes through this path it causes streaks of light in our atmosphere, which is what we call meteors.

Senior Lecturer Gihan Weerasekara note...