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Credit & Copyright: Lu Shupei
Explanation:
Meteors have been shooting out from the constellation of Orion.
This was expected, as October is the time of year for the
Orionids Meteor Shower.
Pictured here, over a dozen meteors were caught in successively
added exposures last weekend over
Wulan Hada volcano in
Inner Mongolia,
China.
The featured image shows
multiple meteor streaks
that can all be connected to a single small region on the sky called the
radiant,
here visible just above and to the left of the
belt of Orion,
The Orionids
meteors started as sand sized bits expelled from
Comet Halley
during one of its trips to the inner
Solar System.
Comet Halley is
actually responsible for two
known meteor showers,
the other known as the
Eta
Aquarids and
visible every May.
Next month, the
Leonids Meteor Shower
from Comet Tempel-Tuttle should also result in
some bright meteor streaks.
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