If you're out and about this evening (Tuesday) look up to the skies and you may see some meteors.

The Geminids can be one of the best meteor showers of the year with up to 100 shooting stars an hour.

The shower started earlier this month and runs until the 19th but is peaking just about now.

The meteors appear to come from a point in the sky known as the 'radiant' which in this case lies close to the star Castor in the constellation Gemini.

The best chance of seeing meteors is around midnight and if you don't know where to find Gemini you should be looking in the general direction of the much more widely known constellation - Orion.