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                              2020 November 21

               Mars and Meteor over Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)

   Explanation: A brilliant yellowish celestial beacon, Mars still dazzles
   in the night. Peering between clouds the wandering planet was briefly
   joined by the flash of a meteor in this moonless dark sky on November
   18. The single exposure was taken as the Earth swept up dust from
   periodic comet Tempel-Tuttle during the annual Leonid Meteor Shower.
   The view of a rugged western horizon looks along the Yulong mountain
   range in Yunnan province, southwestern China. Yulong (Jade Dragon) Snow
   Mountain lies below the clouds and beyond the end of the meteor streak.

                 Tomorrow's picture: dark marking on the sky
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