GEMINID: The famous winter meteor shower will sling bright shooting stars across the sky this week, peaking Thursday night into Friday morning, according to space.com.

“The Geminids are considered one of the best meteor showers every year because the individual meteors are bright, and they come fast and furious,” the site reads. “This year, there will be more than one per minute, reaching 100 meteors per hour. Under light-polluted skies, fewer meteors will be visible.”

The best time to view them is about 2 a.m., but they start being visible as early as 9 or 10 p.m.

APOLLO: Speaking of space, NASA has a couple of things to celebrate lately.

The agency spoke at a new conference Monday morning about its Voyager 2, which, as of Nov. 5, is only the second human-made object to reach “the space between the stars” — exiting the heliosphere, a press release from the agency explained.

In 2012, NASA’s Voyager 1 crossed the boundary of the heliosphere. That boundary, called the heliopause, is “where the tenuous, hot solar wind meets the cold, dense interstellar medium.”

We still have communication with Voyager 2, which is just over 11 billion miles from Earth. It takes roughly 16.5 hours for information moving at the speed of light to travel from Voyager 2 to Earth.

Meanwhile, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission with a program today at the Washington National Cathedral.

The spacecraft “was the first to bring humans to another world as they orbited the Moon on Christmas Eve, 1968,” according to NASA.

The program will air live at 8 p.m. today on NASA Television, as well as www.nasa.gov/live.

The cathedral is the home of stained glass window, known as the “Space Window,” which has a piece of moon taken from the Sea of Tranquility in it, according to NASA’s website.