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Keywords: Big Dipper, meteor, Geminids
![Леониды над Торре де ля Гуаита](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/12/13/0001248674/leonids99_casado.preview.jpg)
12.12.2010
In 1999, Leonids Meteor Shower came to an impressive crescendo. Observers in Europe saw a sharp peak in the number of meteors visible around 0210 UTC during the early morning hours of November 18. Meteor counts then exceeded 1000 per hour - the minimum needed to define a true meteor storm.
![Метеорит с Лесопилки Саттера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/04/28/0001263977/ACD12-0067-001jenniskens900.preview.jpg)
28.04.2012
Last Sunday's bright fireball meteor falling through skies over California and Nevada produced sonic booms over a broad area around 7:21 am. Estimates indicate the meteor was about the size of a minivan.
![Снега Паранала](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/08/12/0001253239/ParanalMeteor_beletsky.preview.jpg)
11.08.2011
Recorded last week, this dawn portrait of snowy mountain and starry sky captures a very rare scenario. The view does feature a pristine sky above the 2,600 meter high mountain Cerro Paranal, but clear skies over Paranal are not at all unusual.
![Яркий болид](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2008/10/13/0001231347/20080930bolide_edin_small.preview.jpg)
11.10.2008
On September 30, a spectacular bolide or fireball meteor surprised a group of amateur astronomers enjoying dark night skies over the Oklahoma panhandle's Black Mesa State Park in the Midwestern US. Flashing past...
![Метеор не попадает в галактику](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/04/30/0001468054/M33Meteor_Chokshi_960.preview.jpg)
30.04.2019
The galaxy was never in danger. For one thing, the Triangulum galaxy (M33), pictured, is much bigger than the tiny grain of rock at the head of the meteor. For another, the galaxy is much farther away -- in this instance 3 million light years as opposed to only about 0.0003 light seconds.
![Лириды на южном небе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2014/04/24/0001308900/lyridsbeletsky_nolabels900h.preview.jpg)
24.04.2014
Earth's annual Lyrid meteor shower peaked before dawn on April 22nd, as our fair planet plowed through dust from the tail of long-period comet Thatcher. Even in the dry and dark Atacama desert along Chile's Pacific coast, light from a last quarter Moon made the night sky bright, washing out fainter meteor streaks.
![Большой Ковш выше и ниже чилийских вулканов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/05/10/0001382511/DoubleDipper_Beletsky_960.preview.jpg)
9.05.2017
Do you see it? This common question frequently precedes the rediscovery of one of the most commonly recognized configurations of stars on the northern sky: the Big Dipper. This grouping of stars is one of the few things that has likely been seen, and will be seen, by every generation.
![Геминиды и друзья](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/12/16/0001450783/Geminids-DLopez1024.preview.jpg)
15.12.2018
From a radiant in the constellation of the Twins, the annual Geminid meteor shower rained down on our fair planet this week. This beautiful skyscape collects about 70 of Gemini's lovely shooting stars in a digital composition made from multiple exposures.
![Радужный метеор из потока Геминид](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/12/19/0001451462/GeminidColors_Rowe_1080.preview.jpg)
19.12.2018
Meteors can be colorful. While the human eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can. Pictured is a Geminid captured by camera during last week's meteor shower that was not only impressively bright, but colorful.
![Холодная декабрьская ночь](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2018/12/22/0001451717/2018_12_14_Geminidy_Chata-met_cut_1024px.preview.jpg)
22.12.2018
They say Orion always comes up sideways, and he does seem to on this cold December night. The bright stars of the familiar northern winter constellation lie just above the snowy tree tops surrounding a cozy cottage near the town of Ustupky in the Czech Republic.
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