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In The Sky! Your Guide To Some Of The Best Meteor Showers For 2021
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In The Sky! Your Guide To Some Of The Best Meteor Showers For 2021

The best meteor showers are a spectacular sight but, unfortunately, 2021 starts with a whimper. Moonlight this January will wash out the first of the big three — the Quadrantids (seen above in 2020). Flickr/Mike Lewinski , CC BY After that, the year just gets better and better, with the Perseids (another of the big three along with the Geminids) a particular highlight for northern hemisphere observers in August. In addition to the year’s other reliable performers we’ve included one wild card: the Aurigids, in late August. Most years, the Aurigids are a very, very minor shower, but they just might put on a show this year. So here is our pick of the meteoric highlights for 2021. For each meteor shower, we give you a finder chart showing the radiant (where the meteors appear to come fro...