Discover all the celestial events not to be missed during this year 2025. Between super moons, shooting stars and eclipses, the sky has many surprises and magnificent shows in store for us.
In 2025if you want to witness incredible shows in the French sky, you will have to be ready to sacrifice a little of your sleep! Generally, you have to wake up in the middle of the night to best appreciate the showers of shooting stars or the Super Monday. And this year, the astronomers amateurs are delighted, with a partial solar eclipse and two total lunar eclipses and many celestial phenomena!
With the naked eye or with a telescope, if the sky is cloudless, prepare to look up at the stars! We take it out calendar and we note the events not to be missed! Hoping for beautiful evenings without too much clouds and rain to enjoy them, and why not, new northern lights, while our favorite star has entered the period of solar maximum ?
January
The January 16, the planet Mars is closest to the Earth, in opposition, the conditions are therefore excellent for observing it with the naked eye, which will not happen again for around 25 months. Furthermore, by the end of the month, you will be able to see a arc of planets after sunset, between Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus.
Mars
This is a month that will delight Sunday astronomers, since two eclipses await us in Europe! THE Saturday March 29a partial solar eclipse will pass over part of eastern Canada, France and northern Europe whileLunar eclipse total will occur on the night of March 13 to 14with a reddish star, the Earth partly preventing the light of the Sun from illuminating the Moon.
Avril
We don’t uncover ourselves by a thread, even when going to observe the famous shooting stars of Lyrideswhich light up the sky every year towards the 21 of the month!
Lyrids: a shower of shooting stars visible in the sky in April
From April 14 to 30, 2025, a shower of shooting stars will be visible in the French sky. These are the Lyrids, meteors that pass through our atmosphere every year. We look up to the sky and admire the spectacle! [Lire la suite]
May
When it comes to shooting stars, the month of May is not to be outdone! The maximum of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower should take place around May 5. The radiant will be located near the constellation Aquarius, from which 10 to 20 shooting stars will appear per hour in our hemisphere. These meteors come to us from the debris of the famous comet Halley. To observe them, go away from the city lights, to a high point!
Eta Aquarids: a shower of shooting stars visible in the sky in May
From April 19 to May 28, 2025, a shower of shooting stars will be visible in the French sky. These are the Eta Aquarids, meteors that pass through our atmosphere every year. We look up to the sky and admire the spectacle! [Lire la suite]
August
THE Perseids are the most famous showers of shooting stars, because they are the most active. From July 16 to August 23, you will be able to observe these meteors every night, with a peak of activity on the night of August 12with nearly 100 shooting stars observable per hour! A show not to be missed!
The Perseids, the most beautiful shower of shooting stars of the year, back in August
Throughout the month of August and more particularly on August 11, 2025, the famous Perseid shower of shooting stars will be visible in the French sky, like every year. We look up to the sky and admire the spectacle! [Lire la suite]
September
Incredible but true, a second Blood Moon in 2025! THE September 7a news total lunar eclipse This time it is prepared at the end of the day, around 7:30 p.m.
October and November
Two rows of shooting stars come to grace us with their presence in October and November, the Orionids and the Leonidswhich follow one another. The first ones reach their peak on October 20with nearly 20 meteors per hour from comet Halley, while the Leonids, particularly fast and colorful, are the most numerous on November 17but even fewer in number.
Two Super Moon will also take place in the last quarter of 2025, on October 7 and November 5, as well as one in December, on the 4th, while Saturn will lose his rings November 8since the planet appears to us on its edge, which happens every 15 years. This time, however, you have to take out the telescope to have a chance to observe it!
Orionids: the dates to admire this autumn shower of shooting stars
In October, a shower of shooting stars is visible in the French sky. These are the Orionids, meteors that pass through the constellation Orion every year. We look up to the sky and admire the spectacle, if the weather leaves us alone! [Lire la suite]
Leonids: everything you need to know about this little shower of colorful shooting stars to observe in November
Shooting stars are back in our sky, with the Leonids! The peak is expected on the night of November 17, 2025, from midnight, with colorful and bright meteors. [Lire la suite]
December
THE Geminid are the most famous shooting star showers after the Perseids, because they are among the most active of the year. From December 7 to 17, you will be able to observe these meteors every night, with a peak of activity on the night of December 13with nearly 60 shooting stars observable per hour! An incredible spectacle not to be missed, if the weather is nice!
Geminids: a beautiful shower of shooting stars to observe in the sky in December
A shower of shooting stars will be visible before Christmas, in the French sky, during the nights of December 4 to 20, 2025, with a peak on the 13th. Get ready to admire the beauty of this starry sky! [Lire la suite]
