This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: November 9 to 15, 2026
New moon falls at 1:02 AM on Monday, so this is the darkest week of November: the Moon is absent until Wednesday evening and sets before 11 PM…
Taurids
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This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: November 2 to 8, 2026
This is the dark week of November: the waning crescent Moon thins from 40 percent on Monday to nothing by Sunday, rising later each morning and leaving the…
Meteor Showers
Taurid Meteor Showers 2026: Fireball Season, Dark Moon
The Taurid meteor showers peak in the first half of November 2026 under a near-perfect Moon: the Southern Taurids around Thursday, November 5, and the Northern Taurids around…
Sky Guides
November 2026 Night Sky Guide: Moon, Planets, Meteor Showers
November 2026 is a morning month. Jupiter and Mars meet before dawn on the 16th, Venus returns as the Morning Star and reaches its brightest on the 27th,…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: October 26 to November 1, 2026
The week opens with the Hunter’s Moon rising just after sunset on Monday, covers the Pleiades on Tuesday night, then thins toward last quarter on Sunday, when the…