Intensive 6 hours Shooting Stars

Residents of the Northern Hemisphere will be able to enjoy the spectacle starting at midnight. Above the Earth's northern hemisphere in the night of 3 January 4, astronomers predict the most intense "star rain» .

Watch Shooting Stars will be the constellation Bootes side. "Star rain" will be the result of increased activity of the meteor shower "Quadrantids", which began December 28, 2012 and should be completed by January 5th. Activity meteor shower "Quadrantids" reaches its peak around midnight on January 3, and for six hours Shooting Stars will be enough intensivnym.

Meteors will move at a speed of 41 km / s, and the color of outbreaks would rather yellowish, not white. Next "star rain" will occur in the spring from 16 to 25 April, and will be even more intense, with a maximum intensity of 22 April.

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