Overview of Meteor Showers Three meteor showers peak during November, and five are active in total. Meteors, or shooting stars, are often rocky debris from space that have entered our atmosphere at high speeds and burned up in a spectacular show of light. While we can usually only see meteors at night, they happen throughout the day and year. Contrary to what you may think, the space between planets in our solar system really isn’t that empty; it’s extraordinarily spacious, b

With less than one week until many early college application deadlines, millions of high school students around the nation are in overdrive, finalizing essays, extracurricular descriptions, and perhaps even their college lists. Although all applicants are (hopefully) after the precious “Congratulations!” admission letter, they differ in the avenues they’ll pursue for such a goal. Early decision, early action , regular decision, and rolling admission plans give high schoolers

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