This weeks APOD is taken from today, December 13th and is an image of the Geminid Meteor shower. While this image was taken in 2012, it gives a good idea to the viewer what it will look like tonight. That's right, the night of December 13th and the morning of the 14th will look like this in select places around the world. This is a yearly thing that is looked forward to by astronomer everywhere. This image was taken over three hours with a time lapse camera and it really shows just how amazing beautiful flaming space rocks heading for one's head can look like. Fortunately, we have the atmosphere to protect us from dying and allow us to see the amazing spectacle in the image above. This image was taken in China and this year it will be somewhere else but, unfortunately, us Floridians won't be able to see it. The meteors that rain down are actually traveling at 14 miles per second. I know that I am looking forward to seeing what they looked like this year tomorrow.
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