--- title: How to Watch the Taurid Meteor Shower This Month description: Pebble-sized meteors should put on big light show canonical: https://time.com/4103158/how-to-watch-the-taurid-meteor-shower-fireballs/ author: Victor Luckerson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-06T19:29:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:25:10.693Z article:section: Science og:title: How to Watch the Taurid Meteor Shower This Month og:description: Pebble-sized meteors should put on big light show og:url: https://time.com/4103158/how-to-watch-the-taurid-meteor-shower-fireballs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc2f2dfc47b123d5/69886ffb0b72e311b46e6b42/taurid.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: A bright Taurid fireball recorded by the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station in Cartersville, Georgia, in 2013. 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NASA by [Victor Luckerson](https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/) ## Victor Luckerson Nov 6, 2015 7:29 PM UTC A meteor shower that produces dazzling fireballs will be viewable later this month and is predicted to [produce a dazzling display.](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-for-fireballs-taurid-meteor-shower-to-put-on-a-show/) The Taurid meteor shower, named for the constellation Taurus, are often tepid and hard to see but are expected to be extremely bright this year, CBS reports. A “Taurid swarm” is expected to form, in which small fragments of a comet will burn in the Earth’s atmosphere and create fireballs. In the past, viewers of the shower have confused brightly burning Taurids for airplanes and fireworks. Visibility of the meteor shower is expected to peak on Nov. 12 between midnight and 3 a.m. local time. It’s possible that some of the larger meteors will survive their trip through the atmosphere and reach the ground. \[[_CBS News_](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-for-fireballs-taurid-meteor-shower-to-put-on-a-show/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4103158/how-to-watch-the-taurid-meteor-shower-fireballs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4103158/how-to-watch-the-taurid-meteor-shower-fireballs/"},"headline":"How to Watch the Taurid Meteor Shower Fireballs","datePublished":"2015-11-06T19:29:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:25:10.693Z","description":"Pebble-sized meteors should put on big light show","url":"https://time.com/4103158/how-to-watch-the-taurid-meteor-shower-fireballs/","keywords":["astronomy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc2f2dfc47b123d5/69886ffb0b72e311b46e6b42/taurid.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Victor Luckerson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/victor-luckerson/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfc2f2dfc47b123d5/69886ffb0b72e311b46e6b42/taurid.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A bright Taurid fireball recorded by the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station in Cartersville, Georgia, in 2013. 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