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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2024 January 11   
      
                             Quadrantids of the North   
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Hù'g#öHäØ Yeom Beom-seok   
      
      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 asterism, known to some as the Plough,   
      at the boundaries of the modern constellations Bootes and Draco. In   
      fact the Big Dipper "handle" stars are near the upper right corner in   
      this frame, with the meteor shower radiant just below. North star   
      Polaris is toward the top left. Pointing back toward the radiant,   
      Quadrantid meteors streak through the night in this skyscape from   
      Jangsu, South Korea. The composite image was recorded in the hours   
      around the shower's peak on January 4, 2024. A likely source of the   
      dust stream that produces Quadrantid meteors was identified in 2003 as   
      an asteroid.   
      
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