Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter and experienced stargazer who covers the night sky, astro-tourism, the northern lights and space exploration. He received the 2023 Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division and is the author of A Stargazing Program for Beginners. Writing for Forbes.
Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead .The rise of the last “supermoon” of the year is the sky-watching highlight this week. It will turn “full” on Saturday, but look large all week. The weekend’s Leonids could be difficult to see, but expect the brighter Northern Taurids to pepper the night skies with moon-proof “fireballs” for most of the week.
The Northern Taurid meteor shower peaks overnight tonight at around midnight. It’s not a major meteor shower, with only about five “shooting stars” per hour, but its peak is not particularly well-defined. So any “shooting stars” you see this week are probably Taurids. With a bright moon bleaching the night sky this week, you might think that this meteor shower’s peak doesn’t have the best prospects, but Taurids tend to be bright “fireballs.” They’re the result of dust and debris left in the inner solar system by Comet 2P/Encke.Hudson Yards in New York City on November 16, 2021, as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey.
Trump Says Former ICE Head Tom Homan Will Serve As His ‘Border Czar’—Here’s What He’s Said About Mass DeportationsThe eleventh and penultimate full moon of 2024 and the second of fall in the northern hemisphere, the “Beaver Moon”— also known as the “Frost Moon” and the “Mourning Moon” — is, technically speaking, a supermoon — 2024’s last. However, it will be the third-smallest of 2024’s four “supermoons.
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