The Geminid meteor shower rained over the weekend with hundreds of meteors per hour, pleasing the senses of astrophotographers and stargazers allover the world. The annual meteor shower gets its name after the Gemini constellation, the space region from which the meteors seem to radiate. The parent asteroid of the shower, called 3200 Phaethon, travels close to the Earth, and its debris falls in to the atmosphere, where it vaporizes as light. Earth runs into a stream of debris from 3200 Phaethon every year in mid-December, causing meteors to fly from the constellation Gemini. When the Geminids first appeared in the early 19th century, shortly before the U.S. Civil War, the shower was weak and attracted little attention. There was no hint that it would ever become a major display. Here are some of the most astonishing photos of this years event. #Geminids #Geminids2014 #eyecandy #meteorshower #astronomy
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:07:03 +0000
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