Dozens of shooting stars fall to Earth against a dark, starry night sky.
The Quadrantids can produce over 100 meteors an hour.
  • The first meteor shower of the year is here. The Quadrantids peak early morning on January 4.
  • There's only about a 6-hour window where you can catch the most brilliant shooting stars. 
  • NASA says the Quadrantids are considered some of the best meteor showers that appear each year.

Our planet is on a collision course, racing toward a thin stream of dust in space. When the two meet, the debris should rain down toward Earth at 90,000 mph, producing a meteor shower called the Quadrantids.