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Comet Jacques and the Agalon Group Nebula IC 405, also known as the Burning Star Nebula, aligned and formed a temporary question mark in the sky on the morning of July 26. Photo: Rolando Lagostri

Comet Jacques created a question mark in the sky

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A bright meteor in the Giraffe Shower, May 24, 2014, as photographed from Duluth, Minnesota. Photo: Bob King, universe today

Report from the US: Giraffe meteor shower was sparse but produced some beautiful slow meteors

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The position of the giraffe (Caneleopard) group in the sky, in a circle - the radiant position of May's giraffe meter. Photo: NASA/MEO/D. Moser using Starry Night Pro

Reminder: new meteor shower - the giraffe: the peak is expected tomorrow morning

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Meteors. Photo: NASA website

NASA: New meteor shower expected on May 24

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Fireball over Murmansk, Russia, April 19, 2014. Screenshot from Russia Today broadcasts

Hedi Chelyabinsk: Another fireball exploded over Russia on April 19, this time there were no casualties

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The flare caused by a car-sized object crashing into the moon. Photo: Jose Madedo

A meteorite crashed into the moon in an unprecedented blow to its brightness

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The remains of Comet Ison, as photographed by the Soho spacecraft of NASA and the European Space Agency the day after perihelion.

Astronomers: There is still hope that some fragments from the nucleus of Comet Ison survived the passage

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Comet Ison approaches the Sun, November 28, 2013. Photo: NASA/European Space Agency

Comet Ison disintegrated as it approached the Sun * Experts: It disintegrated from the inside in the hours preceding its passage by the Sun

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A living creature discovered at a height of 27 kilometers in the atmosphere. Did it come from space? Photo: University of Sheffield

Living creatures from space or just drifting?

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Chemical analysis of the meteorite fragment that crashed into Shatter Mill may indicate that rocks in space contained the molecules required for the development of life. Photo: Prof. Sandra Fitzgerald, Arizona State University

Life started out easy, because the organic compounds that came from space were more complex than we thought until now

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Larger meteorites cause bright flashes of light when they hit Earth's atmosphere, such as this fireball captured during the Perseid shower on August 12, 2006. However, the bulk of meteoric activity is much less spectacular - about 10-40 tons of meteor dust enters the atmosphere ours every day. Photo: Pierre Martin

Tonight's Perseid-like meteor shower is only the tip of the iceberg. NASA maps tons of meteor dust in the sky every day

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Another angle of view of the meteor that hit Russia on Friday, 15/2/2013, from a YouTube video

The shock wave of the meteor that hit Russia in February circled the Earth twice in three days

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Tag of an airborne mission to track the Dragonids in 2011

A ton of material was added to the Earth in one meteorite meter

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Beads found in Egypt, made from a meteorite rich in iron. Photo: The Open University of Great Britain

The accessories of ancient Egypt - meteorites

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Simulation of a meteorite impact on the lunar surface, March 17, 2013. Image: NASA

NASA: A bright explosion on the moon was caused by a meteor impact weighing 30-40 kg

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Radiant Meter Hata Aquarids. Iorf NASA

Tonight after midnight - a rain shower of Aquarids

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Guessing where to locate the PanSTARRS comet on March 12, 2013 after sunset. Illustration: David Atkinson, Universe Today

Comet Fanstars continues to move north, today may be visible from Israel for a short time after sunset with the naked eye

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Photo: The path of the comet in the western sky about an hour after sunset at latitudes 30 north in the week between the 8th and the 16th of March (also relevant to Israel).

A guide to watching Comet Fanstars in March 2013

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Another angle of view of the meteor that hit Russia on Friday, 15/2/2013, from a YouTube video

"The meteorite explosion in Russia was 30 times more powerful than the bomb on Hiroshima"

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Meteorite explosion over Russia, February 15, 2012, screenshot from RT broadcasts

Hundreds injured by a meteor explosion in the air in Russia

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Artist's impression of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt. Image: NASA

A comet that will pass next month may be visible to the naked eye

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meteorites. Photo: Eric James NASA

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An artificially colored image of one of the meteors in the Geminid shower in 2011. Photo: NASA

Tonight - the peak of the Geminid shower

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An image created using Starry Night software shows what Comet ISON will look like in the evening sky after sunset on November 29, 2013 from the UK

The bright comet Ison may provide a celestial display in about a year - if it does not disintegrate near the sun

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NASA visualization of the trail of the remains of Comet Swift Tuttle and why exactly on August 12 the Earth meets the stream of dust and gas that creates the Perseid shower

2012 Perseid Meteor Shower According to NASA: Three Days of Meteors, Crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter

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