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USA LEONIDEN METEORREGEN
DCA01 - 20011106 - WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES : This November 2000 NASA file image obtained 06 November, 2001 shows a meteor streaking across the sky during the Leonid meteor shower. A dazzling Leonid light show is expected again in the early morning hours 18 November as viewers in North America may see a two-hour burst of shooting stars with up to 20 shooting stars per minute. Meteors are commonly called shooting stars however,the flares of light in the sky are actually not stars, but material from comets. In this case, the flares come from the tail of comet Tempel-Tuttle, which sheds dust and gas particles as it streaks a path through the solar system once every 33 years. Earth runs into this trail of uneven comet exhaust every year, and the particles strike Earth's outer atmosphere and burn up. The shooting stars of the Leonid shower appear to be arriving from inside the constellation Leo, the Lion. EPA PHOTO AFPI/NASA/NASA/NASA
USA LEONIDEN METEORREGEN
DCA01 - 20011106 - WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES : This November 2000 NASA file image obtained 06 November, 2001 shows a meteor streaking across the sky during the Leonid meteor shower. A dazzling Leonid light show is expected again in the early morning hours 18 November as viewers in North America may see a two-hour burst of shooting stars with up to 20 shooting stars per minute. Meteors are commonly called shooting stars however,the flares of light in the sky are actually not stars, but material from comets. In this case, the flares come from the tail of comet Tempel-Tuttle, which sheds dust and gas particles as it streaks a path through the solar system once every 33 years. Earth runs into this trail of uneven comet exhaust every year, and the particles strike Earth's outer atmosphere and burn up. The shooting stars of the Leonid shower appear to be arriving from inside the constellation Leo, the Lion. EPA PHOTO AFPI/NASA/NASA/NASA