December 13, 2010
The atoms in your body have known many forms: star core, drifting dust, ocean mineral, living cell.
Contemplating the Sky
Birthday · December 13, 2010
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APOD published December 13, 2010. Credit: Amir Taheri. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Have you contemplated your sky recently? Tonight will be a good one for midnight meditators at many northerly locations as meteors from the Geminids meteor shower will frequently streak through. The Geminds meteor shower has slowly been building to a crescendo and should peak tonight. Pictured above ten days ago, a group of celestial sightseers in the Maranjab Desert in Iran, were treated to a dark and wondrous pre-dawn sky that contained the planet Venus and a crescent Moon. Tonight Mars and Mercury should be visible just above the southwestern horizon at sunset, while the first quarter Moon will set around midnight.
Image credit: Amir Taheri