2025 promises a year of captivating celestial events, ranging from 'blood moon' lunar eclipses to meteor showers and rare planetary alignments.
The last year saw a total solar eclipse in North America, stunning global displays of the aurora and a naked-eye comet. Can 2025 compete? From a couple of “blood moon” lunar eclipses to dark sky meteor showers and rare planetary alignments, the night sky won't disappoint. With 2025 the peak of the sun’s 11-year solar cycle, expect intense geomagnetic storms that fuel auroras. Yes, they may well reach the U.S.
and Europe, but if you want the best chance of having the best views for over a decade, get yourself to high-latitude regions like Alaska, Iceland, northern Norway, northern Finland, and northern Sweden.Kick off the year with this brilliant (and much underrated) meteor display. Under dark, moonless skies, the Quadrantids promise between 25 to 200 meteors per hour.Mars will glow a bright golden color all January, on either side of its opposition — its closest alignment with Earth. This once-every-26-month event offers excellent views of the red planet’s surface details through a telescope.Although Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will be easy to see right now with the naked eye — and will continue to be in January — this date is being touted as the best night to see the “planet parade.” It’s certainly the last best chance because the moon will be gone from the early evening sky, and Saturn will soon transit into the pre-dawn sky. If you have a telescope, Neptune will be close to Venus and Uranus close to Jupiter.Venus — barreling towards Earth as it catches up on its shorter, faster journey around the sun — will shine tonight at a breathtaking magnitude of -4.5, making it the brightest object in the night sky after the moon. That’s despite it being a slim crescent.Witness the moon turn reddish as it passes through Earth’s inner umbral shadow for the first time since late 2022. North America will enjoy the best views of this eerie phenomenon, with totality lasting 65 minutes in the middle of the nigh
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