Geminid meteor shower over Dashanbao Wetlands.
The night sky is shared with bright Jupiter to the right, the Orion constellation to the center right and the faint central band of the Milky Way galaxy. The Gemini constellation, the apparent source of the meteor streaks, is just above the top of the frame. As Earth moved into the cosmic dust of comet Phaethon 3200, the meteors enter the atmosphere at a speed of about 22,000 meters per second. This particular location is the Dashanbao Wetlands in central China.
Image Credit: Jeff Dai
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