The Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of 2025, will peak tonight and tomorrow morning, offering a spectacular display of up to 120 bright fireballs across the Northern Hemisphere sky.
The Quadrantids are visible from most of the Northern Hemisphere. It seems the universe is looking out for the thousands of people in Birmingham who found out the city’s New Year fireworks were fake. Because now the night sky is about to throw its own light show. The Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of 2025, will see some 120 bright fireballs glide across the sky from dusk to dawn every hour. What are meteor shower s? For one, these shooting stars aren’t actually stars.
They’re the rocky leftovers of an icy comet that fall into Earth’s atmosphere – when they do so, scientists call these debris meteors. These dirty snowballs are constantly swinging around the Sun and, eventually, the Earth intersects with the rubble trailing them. Meteor showers are often called shooting stars. When this happens, however, the comet itself is long gone. It can take decades for the Earth’s orbit to align with the comet’s tail. Most of the debris is no bigger than a grain of sand. But when the Earth reaches the densest part of this fallout, it’s called the peak. What are the Quaratids? The meteor shower is named after Quadrans Muralis, an ancient constellation that astronomers lump in with the constellation Boötes. This annual cosmic fireworks display was first spotted in 1825. About 100 years later, astronomers clocked that it was coming from the small asteroid 2003 EH1. (Don’t worry, it’s not going to collide with the Earth anytime soon and wipe life out.) When is the best time to see the Quadrantids meteor shower? Active between December 27 and January 12, the Quadrantids peak around tonight and tomorrow morning and is best viewed in Europe. Usually, the radiant – the point in the sky where all the blue meteors seem to shoot out from – is the constellation Boötes below the Big Dippe
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