How to watch one of the year's best meteor showers, the Geminids

The Geminids peak this weekend and are visible through mid-December, according to the American Meteor Society. The meteors tend to be yellow in color and can be seen across the globe, but the best viewing happens in the Northern Hemisphere. Meteor showers appear when fast-moving space rocks hit Earth's atmosphere and burn up, leaving behind fiery tails — the end of a “shooting star.”