🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Geminid Meteors over a Snowy Forest 🪐

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Meteors have been flowing out from the constellation Gemini. This was expected, as mid-December is the time of the Geminid Meteor Shower. Pictured here, over two dozen meteors were caught in successively added exposures taken over several hours early Saturday morning from a snowy forest in Poland. The fleeting streaks were bright enough to be seen over the din of the nearly full Moon on the upper right. These streaks can all be traced back to a point on the sky called the radiant toward the bright stars Pollux and Castor in the image center. The Geminid meteors started as sand sized bits expelled from asteroid 3200 Phaethon during its elliptical orbit through the inner Solar System. Jigsaw Challenge: Astronomy Puzzle of the Day

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Jakub Kuřák
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12

Name	Craft
Oleg Kononenko	ISS
Nikolai Chub	ISS
Tracy Caldwell Dyson	ISS
Matthew Dominick	ISS
Michael Barratt	ISS
Jeanette Epps	ISS
Alexander Grebenkin	ISS
Butch Wilmore	ISS
Sunita Williams	ISS
Li Guangsu	Tiangong
Li Cong	Tiangong
Ye Guangfu	Tiangong