November 2025 offers a fading green comet, the year’s biggest supermoon, Taurid and Leonid meteors, Orion’s return, and Mercury’s best dawn view.
The Super Snow Moon sets behind the Statue of Liberty as the sun rises on February 19, 2019, in New York City. Each month, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the weeks ahead .November 2025 offers stargazers plenty of drama — from bright “fireballs” and a once-in-a-lifetime comet to the biggest superman since 2019.
There’s also the return of iconic winter constellations to the long, dark nights and even the appearance of tiny planet Mercury. Here’s everything you need to know about the night sky in November 2025 — with key observing times and finder charts.Comet Lemmon , the once-in-a-lifetime green comet that last visited in the seventh century, was visible through October as it passed near the Big Dipper. By early November, it will be fading as it approaches the sun — making its closest pass on Nov. 8 — but binocular users may still glimpse its diffuse greenish glow in dark northern skies.every day this month for a daily “comet tracker” with finder charts and tips for viewing Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN from mid-northern latitudes. Also readThe month begins with the Southern Taurids, a meteor shower with a long, broad peak that tends to include a lot of bright “fireballs” — particularly bright “shooting stars.” Expect only about five meteors per hour, but bear in mind that 2025 is a “swarm year” for the Taurids, so there might be an outburst. The cause is debris from Comet 2P/Encke. A supermoon is seen over Turkey's capital Ankara on February 19, 2019. A supermoon is a full moon that almost coincides with the closest distance that the Moon reaches to Earth in its elliptic orbit, resulting in a larger-than-usual visible size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. The full “Beaver Moon” in November is no ordinary full moon — it’s 2025’s biggest “supermoon” full moon and the largest since February 2019. Occurring when the moon is at its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit, this supermoon will appear larger and brighter than usual. Rising just after sunset, it will dominate the sky, washing out faint stars but offering one of the most striking lunar displays in years. It’s full on Nov. 5, but will likely look its best on Nov. 6 simply because it rises when the sky is a little darker.Like the Southern Taurids, the Northern Taurids are few in number, but they do produce bright, slow-moving meteors that are easy to spot — and hugely rewarding to see. The Taurid showers together create a “fireball season” that makes early November a great time to go stargazing.The iconic constellation Orion climbs higher each night this month, much to the delight of stargazers and amateur astronomers. Perhaps the most famous star of all, Betelgeuse — which, yes, may explode as a supernova at any time — will be the most prominent. It will be followed into the night sky by Orion’s Belt, with its three unmistakable stars equidistant from each other — Alnitak , Alnilam and Mintaka . Yup — they all mean the same thing!The Leonids are famous for past “meteor storms,” though 2025’s display will be more modest — about 15 meteors per hour under dark skies. What makes them special is their speed: Leonid meteors are some of the fastest, often leaving long, glowing trails.The month closes with Mercury’s best morning appearance of the year. Small and elusive, Mercury can be tricky to catch, but it climbs higher above the horizon glow just enough at the end of November to be spotted — hopefully by the naked eye, and almost certainly through binoculars. With an unobstructed southeastern view, skywatchers should be able to find the closest planet to the sun shining modestly just before sunrise.
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