See you crater, 2024!

After a year filled with remarkable solar occurrences like a total solar eclipse and sightings of the northern lights, 2025 is set to offer even more celestial events worth gazing at.

Things are looking bright in the new year already, kicking off with meteor showers.

The Quadrantids meteor shower, known for its strength and consistency, reaches its peak in early January each year, standing out as one of the most impressive meteor displays. However, unlike other meteor showers, its peak visibility window is remarkably brief, as per NASA.

While many meteor showers have a peak that lasts two days, the Quadrantids’ peak spans just a few hours — specifically, a mere six hours from Thursday night, Jan. 2, to early Friday, Jan. 3. The optimal time to observe the initial meteor shower of the year is in the early morning hours on Friday.

If you miss the Quandrantids, several other showers will occur in 2025, including the Perseids, which peak from Aug. 12 to 13, and the Geminids from Dec. 13 to 14.

Later in January, on Jan. 13, the moon will appear to pass in front of Mars in the evening, which will be visible to skywatchers in the U.S. and eastern Canada.

Also this month, Venus and Saturn will come “just a couple of finger widths’ distance” apart — and the conjunction will be at its closest on Jan. 17 and 18, NASA said.

January will see a couple of month-long celestial events as well. Four planets will be visible after dark all month: Venus and Saturn in the southwest, Jupiter high overhead and Mars in the east. If you have a telescope on hand, Uranus and Neptune can be visible, too.

Additionally, Mars will be directly opposite the sun from Earth, with the red planet shining brightly all night, starting in the east as night falls and in the southwest at dawn.

Northern lights sightings will continue into 2025 as well — and chances of seeing the aurora will come sooner than you may think.

Two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) struck Earth’s magnetic field on New Year’s Eve, bringing out the displays of light in the Northern Hemisphere. With a new CME coming toward Earth, more northern lights can be expected around Friday, Jan. 3, and Saturday, Jan. 4, according to space weather physicist Dr. Tamitha Skov.

Other cosmic events happening later in the year include a total lunar eclipse, which NASA said will occur on March 14. Whether it will be visible from the U.S. is weather-dependent.

A second total lunar eclipse will happen on Sept. 7, but it will not be visible from the U.S.

There will also be a partial solar eclipse, which will be seen in parts of North America on March 29.

Unlike 2024, there will be no total solar eclipse this year or any time soon; the next one that will be visible stateside will be in August 2044.

October kicks off the first of three supermoons in a row, according to NASA.

The final one will occur on Dec. 4.