{"id":279157,"date":"2025-11-12T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279157\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:15:08","slug":"look-up-stargazers-fireballs-expected-to-shoot-across-the-sky-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279157\/","title":{"rendered":"Look up, stargazers. Fireballs expected to shoot across the sky tonight."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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A small group takes in a northern lights show looking out over Barnstable Harbor, Massachusetts in a 30-second time exposure on Nov. 11, 2025.<\/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

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: How to see the Taurid meteor shower on Nov. 12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fireballs could shoot across the sky Wednesday, Nov. 12, right on the heels of the northern lights displaying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39690,49,48,17812,7779,4942,66],"class_list":["post-279157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-american-meteor-society","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fireballs","tag-meteor-shower","tag-northern-lights","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}