Sign up to FREE daily email alerts from Mirror - daily news Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailA stunning photo of the Quadrantid Meteor Shower alongside the constellation Orion has been featured as NASA ’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. The beautiful image was taken by photographer Petr Horalek in Slovakia during the peak of the shower earlier this month. Because they were all shed by the same space rock and so can be traced back to the same direction on the sky: the radiant of the Quadrantid Meteor Shower. “Even though the meteors are now considered to originate from the recognised constellation of Bootes, the old name stuck.”(Image: Getty Images)The Quadrantids Meteor Shower appears every January, but peaked on the evening of January 3 this year. The Lyrids Meteor Shower will peak on the evening of April 22, at which point there will be around 20 meteors per hour.

Source: Daily Mirror January 20, 2020 13:18 UTC