You blinked and October is already over. As much as you might not like packing away your Halloween costume and shelving all your scariest movies, November is here.
Butit's not all bad news – November is bringinga loaded plate of things to look for in the night sky, from meteor showers to the eerie Skull Asteroid.
Here's everything you can look up and see inNovember:
With an extrahour of night sky following Daylight Saving Time on Nov. 4, the fireballs in the South Tauridmeteor shower might be a good way to spend that extra hour. The shower runs from , according to EarthSky. Consisting of shards of the comet Encke, the shower is more known for the brightness of its shooting stars compared to the number – about five per hour. The moon will also be in its waning crescent phase, making for some ideal viewing conditions in its near-absence.
On the evening of Nov. 7, the moon will be on the same side of the Earth as the sun, allowing for some optimal viewing of distant galaxiesor to take in the stars from our own Milky Way.
Flash back to Halloween three years ago: everyone's eyes were fixed on a 2,000-foot-wide rock buzzing within a mere 300,000 miles of Earth. Although it was the distance that gave most people the worried feeling, the fact that the rock was shaped like a human skull wasn't much help, either.
Officially known as 2015 TB145 — but nicknamed the Halloween asteroid — the creepy rock is back, but it'll be a bit behind schedule and much farther away than last time. The dead comet , NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculates. That's a little more comforting than last time.
Soyou missed the first glimpse at the Taurids. Not to worry – you'll get a chance at redemption on Nov. 12 and 13 when the NorthTaurids, , hits its peak, EarthSky reports. Like the SouthTaurids, the sibling shower will be about the brilliance of the fireballs and not the overall number, though the number of shooting stars per hour will be similar – about five.
A moderate meteor shower, the Leonids are produced by dust streams in the trail of the comet Temple-Tuttle, which is set to return in 2031. The Leonids will be best viewed at midnight and , according to In the Sky. The Leonids have been known to produce known to man.
Referred to as the Beaver Moon because it coincided with the time of year when beavers were most active and traps were set by American colonists, November's full moon , according to the Farmer's Almanac. This also meansa full moon occurs onThanksgiving night.