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The Quadrantid meteor shower — one of the best annual meteor showers — will be peaking overnight from Thursday to Friday, producing "fireball" brightness and up to 120 shooting stars per hour ...
The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks between Thursday, Jan. 2 and Friday, Jan. 3 this year. They are predicted to be the strongest on Jan. 3 at 12:45 p.m. ET, according to the American Meteor Society .
This shower, best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere, is renowned for its bright fireballs and has been described by NASA as one of the strongest and most consistent meteor showers of the year ...
The first meteor shower of the New Year also has the potential to be one of the year's best – if the weather cooperates. But astronomers lament that the Quadrantid meteors tend to fall short of ...
The annual Quadrantid meteor shower is set to peak during the early hours of Friday, before dawn. That’s when people in the Northern Hemisphere will have the best chance of seeing the shooting ...
The meteors heat up as they pass through the atmosphere, making them look like shooting stars. While most meteor showers originate from comets, the Quadrantids come from asteroid 2003 EH1 — a ...
Maximum meteor activity is expected to peak between 10 a.m. ET to 1 p.m. ET (15 to 18 Coordinated Universal Time) on January 3, which favors Alaska, Hawaii and far eastern Asia, said Bob Lunsford ...
PHOTO: A view of stargazing as Quadrantids meteor showers peak, at Pigeon Point Light Station in Pescadero, Calif., Jan. 4, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)