When and where to spot shooting stars this year.
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Need an excuse to get outside andrelax your gaze towards the skies?
Below are nearly a dozen for the rest of 2025 that are worth circling on your calendar.
A rare Green Fireball meteor from the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower from 2019 in Babcock Wildlife Management Area, Florida.Credit:Diana Robinson Photography/Getty Images
Your best bet for viewing Lyrid fireballs will be in the darkest hours before dawn.
What is the radiant point of a meteor shower?
If youre feeling lucky, look north towards the constellation Perseus to catch the radiant of this celebrated shower.
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower in Florida.Getty Images
Worth getting your hopes up?
Look up between midnight and dawn towards the showers radiant point in the constellation Orion.
Look towards the constellation Taurus in the early morning hours for this showers radiant point.
A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.Bill Ingalls/ NASA via Getty Images
Like the other showers on our list, this one is best observed after midnight.
They are characteristically bright and colorful but do not generally leave behind trails.
Grab a chair and blanket and bask in the beauty of one of the best showers of the year.
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Outbursts, however, have occasionally occurred, pushing that average rate from 25 to 100 shooting stars hourly.
This years display will coincide with a waxing crescent moon (2 percent illumination).
Look to the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor for this showers radiant point.
