Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2023 December 28
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                           Jupiter and the Geminid
                Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Gaurav Singh

   Explanation: [5]For a brief moment, this brilliant fireball meteor
   outshone Jupiter in planet Earth's night. The serendipitous image was
   captured while hunting meteors under cold Canadian skies with a camera
   in timelapse mode on December 14, near the peak of the [6]Geminid
   meteor shower. The Geminid meteor shower, asteroid 3200 [7]Phaethon's
   annual gift, always arrives in December. Dust shed along the orbit of
   the mysterious asteroid causes the meteor streaks, as the vaporizing
   grains plow through our fair planet's upper atmosphere at 22 kilometers
   per second. Of course Geminid shower meteors [8]appear to radiate from
   a point in the constellation of the Twins. That's below and left of
   this frame. With bright Jupiter on the right, also in the [9]December
   night skyview are the [10]Pleiades and [11]Hyades star clusters.

                  Tomorrow's picture: Shakespeare in space
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