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Looking down on a shooting star
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla
2011/08/15 06:19 CDT
Topics: pretty pictures, International Space Station, human spaceflight, meteors, Hubble Space Telescope
This photo is making the rounds of Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and whatever other social network you care to name today. It was shot by astronaut Ron Garan from the Space Station, and it's a meteor seen from above. Way cool.

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Perseid from space
Astronaut Ronald Garan took this photo from the space station on August 13. The bright trail of a meteor burning up in the atmosphere is very likely a Perseid, a tiny piece of comet Swift-Tuttle, whose trail of dust produces a reliable meteor shower every year around August 12 and 13.Blog Search
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