Night Sky News 20 December 2025 - 4 January 2026

Sunday night, December 28, 2025, brings a classic late-December sky: a bright, growing Moon that lights up the landscape, Jupiter stealing the show for evening stargazers, and the Quadrantid meteor shower officially kicking off its annual run as we head toward the New Year. Moongiant+2Sky & Telescope+2 Below is a complete, publication-ready roundup of what matters most in the sky tonight (28.12.2025)—including the latest space-weather and asteroid-flyby updates that are making the rounds in astronomy reporting and official monitoring dashboards. services.swpc.noaa.gov+2NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)+2 Tonight’s biggest skywatching headlines If you only have 5 minutes outside, make it these: Moon phase tonight: bright waxing gibbous (and why

Dec. 23, 2025 — Tonight’s sky is doing that classic winter trick: it gets dark early, stays dark long, and then quietly hands you a few genuinely photogenic targets as a reward for being a warm-blooded mammal who chose to go outside anyway. The main storylines in Night Sky Today (December 23, 2025) are straightforward and very worth your time: a thin waxing crescent Moon with “earthshine” shortly after sunset, a NOAA-backed aurora chance that could push the northern lights into parts of the U.S., and the Ursid meteor shower still ticking through its final nights of the year. American

The “Night Sky Today” headline for 22.12.2025 is basically a gift-wrapped astronomy combo: the Ursid meteor shower is peaking on the darkest nights of the month, the Moon is only a slim waxing crescent (so it won’t wash out faint meteors), and bright Jupiter is dominating the late-evening sky. Add in a NOAA space-weather forecast calling for minor geomagnetic storming (the kind that can boost aurora chances), and you’ve got one of the most watchable late-December skies in years—assuming clouds don’t crash the party. NOAA SWPC+3TIME+3American Meteor Society+3 Below is a detailed, news-focused guide to what’s happening in the sky