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Credit & Copyright: Haitong Yu
Explanation:
Did you ever get caught in a meteor shower?
If yes, then every minute or so the sky sparked with fleeting flashes of light.
This was the fate of the pictured astrophotographer during last year's Perseids
meteor shower.
During the featured three-hour image composite,
about 90 Perseids rained down above Lake Duolun of
Inner Mongolia,
China.
If you trace back the meteor streaks, you will find that most of them
appear to radiate from a single constellation -- in this
case
Perseus.
In fact, you can even tell which meteors are not
Perseids because they track differently.
Tonight promises to be another good night to get caught in a meteor shower because
it is the peak for the Geminids.
Gemini, the shower radiant,
should rise shortly after sunset and
be
visible most of the night.
Free APOD Lectures:
January 5 in NYC & January 9 in DC
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: meteor shower - Perseids
Publications with words: meteor shower - Perseids
See also:
- APOD: 2025 July 25 Á Twelve Years of Kappa Cygnids
- APOD: 2024 December 10 Á The Great Meteor Storm of 1833
- APOD: 2024 August 12 Á Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge
- APOD: 2024 August 11 Á Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower
- A Perseid Below
- Quadrantids of the North
- APOD: 2023 December 17 Á Geminids over Chinas Nianhu Lake