Quadrantid Meteor Shower 2025: A spectacular celestial event will kick off the New Year 2025, with the Quadrantid meteor shower peaking on January 3 and 4. It has been visible since December 27.

(CNN) — Look up to see the Ursid meteor shower, the final celestial display of the year, on Sunday morning. The shower also favors the Northern Hemisphere because the radiant, or the point from ...

In 2025, that period falls on the night of August 12 to the morning of August 13—but unfortunately, the peak will occur just days after a full moon this time around, meaning that fainter meteors are ...

Key highlights include the Venus and Moon conjunction, Quadrantid meteor shower peak, a Saturn-Moon occultation, Earth at perihelion, Venus elongation, the full Wolf Moon, Mars at opposition ...

From there, you'll want to find the radiant -- also known as the point from which the meteor shower appears to originate -- and then keep your eyes pointed in that direction. The moon's light can ...

Speeding towards Earth, meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the ... [+] Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of ...

The Orionid meteor shower is active between Sept. 26 to Nov. 22 and will peak on Oct. 20-21 between midnight and dawn, with clear-sky rates of about 20 meteors per hour. Viewing conditions for the ...

Mark you calendars to be able to witness some of the most rare, stunning celestial events to take place in the year 2025!

This weekend is your chance to see an amazing, and equally mysterious, meteor shower called the Geminids meteor shower. "The Geminids are my favorite," said NASA Astronomer Bill Cooke in a release ...

Quadrantid Meteor: The Quadrantid meteor, 2025's first meteor shower, is set to light up the sky and welcome the New Year on the night of January 3 and 4. This meteor shower has been visible since ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The Geminid meteor shower—the best of the year—is about to peak and if you're lucky you could see up to 150 “shooting ...