As 2024 has come to a close, we start 2025 with a beautiful spectacle: the arrival of the Quadrantids Meteor Shower across the Northern Hemisphere, which provides between 60 and 200 meteors per hour, depending on whether the day reaches its peak.

Quadrantids started on December 26th and are expected to end around January 16th, the days of when they peaked and were easily able to be observed are January 2nd and January 3rd of 2025 with a peak of 120 meteors per hour and each traveling in the earth’s atmosphere at 22 miles per second, creating beautiful colors of lights as they come by.

The origins of the Quadrantids meteors aren’t what you typically think of a meteor shower to come from, in most cases a meteor shower occurs when a comet leaves behind debris which in turn comes by and creates the iconic streaks of light passing by our sky but for the Quadrantids, they originate from rocks and dust from asteroids, and specifically for the Quadrantids the asteroid that caused the meteor showers is named 2003 EH1, giving off a much brighter and intense than those of typical comet based asteroids.

Although the Quadrantid meteors give off a very bright streak of light it is recommended to view them on a nearly moonless night, and stay as far away from any major lit area such as cities to prevent any light pollution that may hinder your view of the meteors to ensure to have the best visible experience.