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Radiant point of meteor showers: All you need to know
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Between July 29 and 31, two meteor showers will color the night sky: the Southern Delta Aquarids and the Alpha Capricornids. From a clear, light-polluted location, about two dozen meteors will be visible every hour, the Svábhegyi Star Observatory announced.
Radiant point of meteor showers: All you need to know
Meteors in annual showers have a radiant point, a point in the sky from which all the meteors appear to radiate, marked by an O in this image from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Meteor showers have a radiant point Many times each year, when Earth passes through the orbital path of a comet, we see streaks in a dark night sky: a meteor shower! The meteors are cometary debris – icy, dusty particles, called meteoroids – vaporizing in Earth’s uppe…
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