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Keywords: meteor shower, fireball, Geminids
![Метеоры над Внутренней Монголией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/13/0001394088/Perseids_Yu_960.preview.jpg)
13.12.2017
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.
![Северные Геминиды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/15/0001394216/GeminidsYinHao1024.preview.jpg)
15.12.2017
Earth's annual Geminid meteor shower did not disappoint as our fair planet plowed through dust from active asteroid 3200 Phaethon. Captured in this northern hemisphere nightscape, the meteors stream away from the shower's radiant in Gemini.
![Зимний дождь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/17/0001394344/JackFusco_JasperGeminids1024.preview.jpg)
16.12.2017
Four Geminids flash through northern skies in this wintry night skyscape. The bright fireball and 3 fainter meteors were captured in a single 10 second exposure, near the peak of December's Geminid meteor shower.
![Метеоры из Близнецов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/22/0001394643/GeminidMeteorShowerOverChina-Dai1024.preview.jpg)
22.12.2017
From dark skies above Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, meteors rain down on a wintry landscape in this beautiful composited night scene. The 48 meteors are part of last week's annual Geminid meteor shower.
![Болид в Арктике](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/12/25/0001394918/ArcticGeminid_Sutie_1080.preview.jpg)
25.12.2017
Something very bright suddenly lit up the arctic -- what was it? The original idea was to take a series of aurora images that could be made into a time-lapse video. But when night suddenly turned into day, the astrophotographer quickly realized that he was seeing something even more spectacular.
![Метеоры и болиды: свет и звук](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/03/15/0001730144/bolid.preview.png)
15.03.2021
Yes, but have you ever heard a meteor? Usually, meteors are too far away to make any audible sound. However, a meteor will briefly create an ionization trail that can reflect a distant radio signal. If the geometry is right, you may momentarily hear -- through your radio -- a distant radio station even over static.
![Геминиды и Рукавицы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/12/25/0001865173/J7A6402-Edit-copy-sharpened1024.preview.jpg)
25.12.2022
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon's annual gift to planet Earth always arrives in December. Otherwise known as the Geminid meteor shower, the source of the meteroid stream is dust shed along the orbit of the mysterious asteroid.
![Геминиды](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/12/16/0001863294/GeminidoverBluemoonvalley-1024.preview.jpg)
16.12.2022
Returning from beyond the Moon, on December 11 the Orion spacecraft entered Earth's atmosphere at almost 11 kilometers per second. That's half the speed of the grain of dust that created this long fireball meteor when it entered the atmosphere on December 13, near the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower.
![Геминиды над китайским озером Нианху](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/17/0001914587/Geminids_Hongyang_1080.preview.jpg)
17.12.2023
Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Gemini. That is why the major meteor shower in December is known as the Geminids -- because shower meteors all appear to come from a radiant toward Gemini.
![Пыль кометы Галлея и Млечный Путь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/06/05/0001313995/EtaAquaridMW_taylor.preview.jpg)
9.05.2014
The early morning hours of May 6 were moonless when grains of cosmic dust streaked through dark skies. Swept up as planet Earth plows through dusty debris streams left behind periodic Comet Halley, the annual meteor shower is known as the Eta Aquarids.
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