Before 2016 ends, the sky will treat us with Taurid activity. Taurid meteor shower is expected to amaze us this month. If you have missed the first stream last Nov. 4 and 5, you are lucky because you can still enjoy stargazing the Taurid meteor shower this Nov. 11 and 12.

The bright and spectacular fireballs of the Taurid shower can be observed as bigger, longer, and smaller than the usual meteors that we can spot this November, which makes the event remarkably amazing. This year, the meteor stream will only have a few fireballs, and we can expect approximately five meteors per hour.

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"The South Taurids should produce their greatest number of meteors shortly after midnight on Nov. 5. Remember, it'll be possible to catch a fireball or two," according to Earth Sky.

The North Taurids will have their peak on the night of Nov. 11 until the dawn of Nov. 12.

"This is not one of these high-rate meteor showers, but when you see one, you will know it. They are very bright, and they are pretty consistent year after year," noted Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.

"The best time to look for Taurids is after midnight, when Taurus is high in the sky and when the sky is dark and clear, with no moonlight to mask the fainter meteors," Cooke wrote in a blog post for NASA last year.

To find the Taurus constellation and look for a more precise location of the event, you have to spot the Orion constellation and then look north.

If you miss this Taurid meteor shower, do not worry because you have another chance this month to see shooting stars. The Leonid meteor shower is set to peak between Nov. 16 and Nov. 17.

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