Stars No. 42-21779715
by Tony Hallas - © Corbis. All Rights Reserved. - © Tony Hallas/Science Faction/Corbis
Leonid Meteors and the Big Dipper
Original caption: Spectacular meteors during a Leonid meteor shower, centered on Ursa Major, also known as the Big Dipper. The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. They get their name from the location of their radiant (i.e., the point in the sky where the meteors seem to originate or radiate from) in the constellation Leo. The color shift is due to the meteoroid's burning in the atmosphere. --- Image by © Tony Hallas/Science Faction/Corbis






















