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The key thing everyone gets right is the cause-and-effect relationship, but here's where people trip up: they think a comet has to be visible to create a meteor shower. In reality, most of the comets responsible for the major annual showers are too faint or too far away to see without a telescope, even though their debris streams put on brilliant displays when Earth plows through them. So you might catch an amazing meteor shower without ever spotting the comet that made it - the two don't always happen at the same time or place in the sky.
a meteor shower happens when earth passes through debris left behind by a comet, so you see lots of brief streaks across the sky over a few nights. a comet itself is an icy object orbiting the sun that becomes visible as one bright fuzzy spot with a tail, and it sticks around for weeks or longer.
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