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Quadrantid meteor shower January 4, 2022: Timings, how to watch from India, and more

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Quadrantid meteor shower January 4, 2022: Timings, how to watch from India, and more

Quadrantids are here to welcome the new year. The annual meteor shower will reach its peak after 2:00 tomorrow morning, and about 80 meteors can be seen every hour. According to NASA, the meteor speed is 41 kilometers per second.

The Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the brightest meteor showers. It is active from December 28 to January 12 every year. What is unique about the Quadrantid meteor shower?

Most meteor showers originate from comets, but the Quadrantid meteor shower originates from an asteroid named 2003 EH1. It takes 5.52 years for this asteroid to orbit the sun. When the earth passes through the particles left by this asteroid, we will see a meteor shower. These debris trajectories disintegrate when they collide with our atmosphere, forming the hot streaks we see in the sky.

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The meteor shower is named after the constellation Quadrans Muralis. When the meteor shower was first noticed, it seemed to emanate from this constellation. It is now a non-existent constellation located near the constellation of Boots. How to watch the shower?

Stay away from the city’s light pollution and find a safe open space or house terrace. It takes about 20 to 30 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the darkness, so please arrive as soon as possible. Make sure you bring a blanket to keep yourself comfortable this winter night. You do not need any special equipment. The best strategy is to face the northeast side of the sky and pay attention to the fireball. The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 will start live broadcast at 5:15 tomorrow morning. They will catch showers from Rome.

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Nasa’s old map of Jupiter, which reminds many of dosa, has gone viral once more

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Nasa’s old map of Jupiter, which reminds many of dosa, has gone viral once more

Certain images or videos frequently resurface on the Internet, leaving people speechless. When those clips or pictures are shared again on one social media platform or another, they create a buzz. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) created and posted this image of a map of Jupiter online a few years ago. After being shared on Twitter, the image drew a lot of attention this time. And, as usual, the image made people think of dosa, a popular South Indian dish.

The image was shared by the Twitter account Latest in Space. “From the very bottom of Jupiter, I’m looking up. While tweeting the image, they wrote, “Seen by NASA Cassini.” The images from the Cassini spacecraft’s narrow-angle camera were used to create this out-of-this-world image, which is part of a coloured map series produced by the space agency.

The article was published a few days ago. The tweet has received nearly 20,000 likes since it was shared, and the number is growing. The tweet has been retweeted more than 2,000 times. Take a look at some of the comments to see how the image of Jupiter looks like dosa.

A Twitter user commented, “Looks like a designer dosa.” “When I rush to pick up a call, this is what happens to my dosa on the dosa pan,” one joked. “This is how my mother makes Dosa,” a third said. “Jupiter in the making,” wrote a fourth, along with a photo of someone preparing – you guessed it – dosa.

 

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