{"id":281511,"date":"2025-11-13T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281511\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:05:10","slug":"how-to-see-the-taurid-meteor-shower-on-nov-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281511\/","title":{"rendered":"How to see the Taurid meteor shower on Nov. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

If conditions are optimal, the Taurid meteor shower will be visible the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 12.<\/p>\n

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Fireballs could shoot across the sky Wednesday, Nov. 12, right on the heels of the northern lights displaying their wonder<\/a> over nearly two dozen U.S. states this week.<\/p>\n

If conditions are optimal, the Taurid meteor shower<\/a> will be visible the evening of Nov. 12, and into the early morning of Thursday, Nov. 13, according to the American\u00a0Meteor\u00a0Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The meteor shower has produced an increasing number of fireballs, which are large explosions of light and color, each year, as previously reported by USA TODAY<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If the skies are clear, the shower is expected to display its best show<\/a> for stargazers, with meteors streaking across the sky, according to Space.com.<\/p>\n

Here is more about the meteor shower, including where and when to observe it.<\/p>\n

Watch: Video shows northern lights dancing across US<\/a><\/p>\n

When can you see the Taurid meteor shower?<\/p>\n

Taurid meteors can be seen when the\u00a0constellation Taurus<\/a>\u00a0is above the horizon\u00a0between September and November,\u00a0according to NASA.<\/p>\n

While the Southern Taurids, active each year between Sept. 23 and Dec. 8,\u00a0already hit their peak last week<\/a>, the Northern Taurids are active Oct. 13-Dec. 2.<\/p>\n

See where: Northern lights could be visible across the US again tonight.<\/a><\/p>\n

When is the best time to see the Taurids?<\/p>\n

The best time to see the activity tends to be after midnight and before dawn.<\/p>\n

At this time, the moon won’t interfere with the Taurus constellation, which is where the meteors seem to emerge or radiate from,\u00a0according to Earth Sky<\/a>, a website devoted to astronomy and Earth sciences.<\/p>\n

Where can you see the Taurids?<\/p>\n

The Taurids, which come from the approximate direction of the Taurus constellation, are visible everywhere on Earth except the South Pole.<\/p>\n

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If conditions are optimal, the Taurid meteor shower will be visible the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 12. Study…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6391,305,64,63,28289,42769,97018,314,331,131,312,330,324,44,7811,122524,307,326,323,335,451,321,439,128,42766,285,155,320,319,333,313,40293,1844,1192],"class_list":["post-281511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-antarctica","tag-astronomy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-meteor","tag-meteor-showers","tag-meteors","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-nasa","tag-network","tag-network-trending","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-now","tag-now-universal","tag-outer","tag-outer-space","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-point","tag-positive","tag-science","tag-showers","tag-space","tag-story","tag-the","tag-to","tag-to-the-point","tag-trending","tag-trending-news","tag-universal","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}