Although the Southern Taurids are a minor meteor shower that produces only a handful of "shooting stars" each hour, it occasionally features exceptionally bright meteors called fireballs, which can briefly light up the night sky. According to NASA, fireballs are meteors at least as bright as Venus.
Meteors can streak across any part of the sky, but for this meteor shower, they appear to radiate from the constellation Taurus, which will rise in the eastern sky as night falls and climb higher as the night progresses. That makes the hours around midnight a good time to look for shooting stars. However, unlike major meteor showers such as the Perseids (which peak Aug. 12-13) and the Geminids (which peak Dec. 13-14), the Southern Taurids have a broad peak, so there's no need to be outside at an exact time.
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After the Southern and Northern Taurids, the next meteor shower will be the Leonids, which peak Nov. 17-18 and produce around 15 shooting stars per hour, and the Geminids, which peak Dec. 13-14 and can deliver up to 120 shooting stars per hour close to the peak.
It's best to watch meteor showers with the naked eye, but a good backyard telescope will serve you well in the months to come. As the long nights of winter kick off in the Northern Hemisphere, skywatching opportunities abound — including four consecutive supermoons from Nov. 2026 to Feb. 2027.
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