In Central California, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Yosemite National Park are good bets for seeing celestial light shows. Shasta, Siskiyou, and other North State counties offer excellent places to view the night sky. On the North State coast, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is also a prime night sky-watching location.

A Quadrantid meteor shower is expected at the beginning of January, and a "parade of planets" can be seen later in the month. Quadrantid meteors are comprised of fragments from a particular asteroid — a dormant one — called 2003 EH1, according to ...

This week’s Green Sense Minute features Michelle Nichols, director of Public Observing at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, who shares her expert advice on how to spot meteor showers in the night sky.