You’ve got your new calendar ready; it’s time to slot in reminders of the important things, like the meteor howers and eclipses you won’t want to miss when they happen in 2024. The Quadrantid meteor shower is going on now, and will peak on Wednesday night and in the wee hours of Thursday morning. This is an annual meteor shower, but this year the shooting stars should be more visible than last year, since the moon won’t be outshining it.
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The US will see a total solar eclipse in April and a partial lunar eclipse in September. Then in October, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will make its nearest pass by earth. Then there are the meteor showers: Orionid, Geminid, Perseid, Eta Aquarid, and Lyrids. Don’t skip the early ones, because you never know when you’ll be disappointed by cloud cover. Read about all these events and how to see them at Smithsonian.
(Image credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio – Michala Garrison, Ernie Wright, Ian Jones, Laurence Schuler)
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