Earth is moving into the Taurid debris stream, the source of the bright, slow meteors nicknamed Halloween fireballs. Two showers overlap: the Southern Taurids (from Comet 2P/Encke, active 20 September–20 November, peak 4–5 November) and the Northern Taurids (from asteroid 2004 TG10, active 20 October–10 December, peak 11–12 November, just after the 9 November new Moon). Each gives only about 5 meteors an hour, but a good share are fireballs; NASA’s all-sky cameras already caught Taurids on 18 October. 2026 is not a predicted swarm year. Our take: look towards Taurus near the Pleiades in the evening and be patient.
4–5.11Southern Taurids peak
11–12.11Northern Taurids peak, after the 9 Nov new Moon
~5/hmeteors per hour each, but often bright and slow