{"id":327033,"date":"2025-12-04T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327033\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:22:07","slug":"2025s-best-meteor-shower-begins-today-when-to-see-it-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327033\/","title":{"rendered":"2025\u2019s Best Meteor Shower Begins Today \u2014 When To See It At Its Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline<\/p>\n<p>Today sees the beginning of the Geminids, the most prolific meteor shower of the year. A meteor shower that favours the Northern Hemisphere, it\u2019s a display often overlooked by skywatchers despite the potential to produce up to 120 \u201cshooting stars\u201d in a clear, dark sky.  <\/p>\n<p>The Geminid meteor shower on December 13, 2020 was photographed in the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia, China, on a very cold night of minus 20 degrees<\/p>\n<p>gettyKey Facts<\/p>\n<p>The Geminid meteor shower runs from Thursday, Dec. 4, through Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, with its peak overnight on Saturday, Dec. 13 and Sunday, Dec. 14, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/meteor-showers\/meteor-shower-calendar\/#Geminids\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/meteor-showers\/meteor-shower-calendar\/#Geminids\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/meteor-showers\/meteor-shower-calendar\/#Geminids\" aria-label=\"American Meteor Society\">American Meteor Society<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Skywatchers can see Geminids on any clear night from Dec. 4 through Dec. 17, but there\u2019s a much better chance on the peak night.<\/p>\n<p>The Geminids are known for bright, multicolored meteors. At their peak, they can produce up to 120 meteors per hour under a moonless night sky. The moon won\u2019t rise until about 2:00 a.m. on Dec. 14. <\/p>\n<p>What Causes The Geminid Meteor Shower<\/p>\n<p>Each Geminid meteor is a fragment from 3200 Phaethon, a rocky object that orbits the sun every 524 days, making the Geminids one of the only major showers not caused by a traditional comet. The fragments slam into Earth&#8217;s atmosphere as the planet passes through its debris stream. <\/p>\n<p>Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Today sees the beginning of the Geminids, the most prolific meteor shower of the year. A meteor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[305,64,63,183557,39893,179983,113948,28290,97018,128,28291,4940],"class_list":["post-327033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-best-meteor-showers-2026","tag-gemini","tag-geminid-meteor-shower","tag-geminids","tag-meteor-shower","tag-meteors","tag-science","tag-shooting-stars","tag-stargazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327033","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=327033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}