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                              2020 November 21
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               Mars and Meteor over Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
             Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Jeff Dai ([5]TWAN)

   Explanation: A brilliant yellowish celestial beacon, Mars still
   [6]dazzles in the night. [7]Peering between clouds the wandering planet
   was briefly joined by the flash of a meteor in this moonless dark sky
   on November 18. The single exposure was taken as the Earth swept up
   dust from periodic comet Tempel-Tuttle during the annual [8]Leonid
   Meteor Shower. The view of a rugged western horizon looks along the
   Yulong mountain range in Yunnan province, southwestern China. Yulong
   ([9]Jade Dragon) Snow Mountain lies below the clouds and beyond the end
   of the meteor streak.

                 Tomorrow's picture: dark marking on the sky
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   4. http://www.twanight.org/Dai
   5. http://www.twanight.org/
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   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201001.html
   8. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/leonids/in-depth/
   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Dragon_Snow_Mountain
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