Watch the brilliant Geminid meteor shower celebrated by today's Google Doodle

Today's Google Doodle takes its viewers on a short, astronomical journey, showing how the combination of a distant space rock, the Sun, and Earth's atmosphere manage to bring us an incredible natural light show. Right now, the Earth is traveling through a trail of dust and rubble sloughed off by a strange space rock called 3200 Phaethon, which means it's time for this year's Geminid meteor shower. The Geminids tend to be the strongest, brightest meteor shower of the year, but according to the Am...