The Quadrantid meteor shower, 2025’s first, peaks Friday night with up to 120 meteors/hour. Look for blue fireballs under a dark sky, best viewed after midnight.

Early each January, the Quadrantid meteor stream provides one of the most intense annual meteor displays, with a brief, sharp maximum lasting only a few hours. For this reason, many stargazing guides make reference to this display as being particularly elusive.

The shower draws its name from a vanished constellation and could unleash over a hundred meteors per hour for early-rising observers. The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first major meteor display of 2025,

And it all starts tonight. The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks tonight (Jan. 2) and on Jan. 3, according to NASA. The Quadrantids, which peak in early January each year, are considered to be "one of the best annual meteor showers,