This Month Will Bring 2020's Biggest Meteor Shower, a Solar Eclipse, and the Best 'Kissing Planets' in 794 Years - Travel+Leisure

Another bonus is that this is one of the meteor showers that you don’t have to stay up really late for — from North America you can start looking up right after dark on the peak night. .

Wrap up warm — really warm — take a hot drink outside, and stay there, looking up, for at least an hour to let your eyes adjust to the dark.

13, look again the following night — this is a forgiving meteor shower as well as the year’s most prolific. .

A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, Dec.

The next total solar eclipse is just shy of a year later when, on Saturday, Dec.

Before that, a "lesser" kind of solar eclipse — a "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse — will be visible from a small part of northern Canada on Thursday, June 10, 2021.

On that day most of North America will see a huge partial solar eclipse before breakfast. .

21, 2020 — at almost the exact same time as the solstice, which marks the onset of winter — it will be possible to see the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn appear to shine almost as one.