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The Best Meteor Shower of the Year Is Coming—Here’s How to Watch

Gretchen Rundorff

created: Dec. 4, 2025, noon | updated: Dec. 11, 2025, 8:39 a.m.

If you want to get into stargazing in 2025, there’s still a chance to catch some of the best meteor showers of the year. Watching a meteor shower is one of the most accessible ways to engage with the night sky. Each meteor shower is named after its radiant, or the constellation that the shower appears to come from. A meteor shower’s radiant usually needs to be above the horizon before you can see the meteors. The Next Big Meteor ShowerThe Geminids (December)The Geminids are active from about December 4 to December 17, peaking overnight from December 13 to December 14.

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