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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2022 January 8   
      
                             Quadrantids of the North   
                        Image Credit & Copyright: Cheng Luo   
      
      Explanation: Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor   
      Shower puts on an annual show for planet Earth's northern hemisphere   
      skygazers. The shower's radiant on the sky lies within the old,   
      astronomically obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis. That location   
      is not far from the Big Dipper, at the boundaries of the modern   
      constellations Bootes and Draco. In fact north star Polaris is just   
      below center in this frame and the Big Dipper asterism (known to some   
      as the Plough) is above it, with the meteor shower radiant to the   
      right. Pointing back toward the radiant, Quadrantid meteors streak   
      through the night in the panoramic skyscape, a composite of images   
      taken in the hours around the shower's peak on January 4, 2022. Arrayed   
      in the foreground are radio telescopes of the Chinese Spectral   
      Radioheliograph, Mingantu Observing Station, Inner Mongolia, China. A   
      likely source of the dust stream that produces Quadrantid meteors was   
      identified in 2003 as an asteroid.   
      
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