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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                 2023 December 28   
      
                              Jupiter and the Geminid   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Gaurav Singh   
      
      Explanation: For a brief moment, this brilliant fireball meteor   
      outshone Jupiter in planet Earth's night. The serendipitous image was   
      captured while hunting meteors under cold Canadian skies with a camera   
      in timelapse mode on December 14, near the peak of the Geminid meteor   
      shower. The Geminid meteor shower, asteroid 3200 Phaethon's annual   
      gift, always arrives in December. Dust shed along the orbit of the   
      mysterious asteroid causes the meteor streaks, as the vaporizing grains   
      plow through our fair planet's upper atmosphere at 22 kilometers per   
      second. Of course Geminid shower meteors appear to radiate from a point   
      in the constellation of the Twins. That's below and left of this frame.   
      With bright Jupiter on the right, also in the December night skyview   
      are the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters.   
      
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