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Quadrantids Meteor Shower
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The Quadrantids meteor shower appears in this composite image obtained during a 2008 airborne mission to study the annual phenomenon.
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Photo courtesy NASA Ames Research Center, California Institute of Technology, and SETI Institute.
The Quadrantids meteor shower appears in this composite image obtained during a 2008 airborne mission to study the annual phenomenon.
The constellation Quadrans Muralis is no longer recognized by astronomers.
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The Quadrantids meteor shower is one of the brightest visible from Earth.
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