A breathtaking winter nightscape featuring the Quadrantid meteor shower streaking across the sky, seemingly emanating from a single point (radiant). The parallel meteor trails are caused by Earth passing through a dust stream shed by a space rock. The image shows the constellation Orion prominently, including the unusually dim star Betelgeuse, in a snowy Slovakian landscape.
Astronomy Picture from 20/01/2020
Quadrantid Meteors through Orion
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200120.html
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