Every three to seven years, the Taurid shower is more active than usual, according to spaceweather.com. Since the last Taurid swarm occurred in 2015, 2022 is a strong possibility to see an increase in the number of meteors that fall to Earth.

The annual Taurid meteor shower, which peaks in mid- to late-October, is visible between September 10 and November 20. The peak meteor activity for 2022 is scheduled for November 5. The meteors appear to be coming from the Taurus constellation, therefore the name of the meteor shower.

According to Mark Gallaway, an astronomer and science educator at the Bayfordbury Observatory of the University of Hertfordshire, meteors are often made up of tiny dust and grit particles that are circling the sun. They heat up due to friction as they hit the Earth's atmosphere at usual velocities of 44 miles per second.

Gallaway continued, 'They also heat the environment to the point where the path they travel glows.' As the meteor breaks up between 30 and 59 miles in the air, you can see this brilliance. A bright meteor known as a fireball will be produced by larger objects, perhaps ones the size of a pebble. The meteors from the two overlapping Taurid showers come from two distinct sources.

The southern Taurids are caused by a comet called Encke, according to astronomer Sara Webb of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. The northern Taurids are caused by the remains of an asteroid called 2004 TG, which we believe may have broken off Encke at some point.

According to Christopher J. Conselice, a professor of extragalactic astronomy at the University of Manchester in England, the Earth's orbit crosses that of the debris left over from the destruction of the comet Encke material that is gravitationally removed by interactions with other objects in our solar system between late October and December every year.