Astronaut shares unusual image of 2020’s first meteor shower

A NASA astronaut has shared an image of the first meteor shower of 2020, the Quadrantid meteor shower, which took place last weekend.

‘The Quadrantids, which peak during early-January each year, are considered to be one of the best annual meteor showers,’ says NASA on its Solar System Exploration website.

Astronaut Christina Koch tweeted that shooting stars can be seen from space along with a photo of the meteor shower, taken from the International Space Station.

Can you see shooting starts from space? Turns out, yes! The first meteor shower of the decade and we were lucky enough to catch it from the @Space_Station along with the northern lights. This is a composite image of a few of the #quadrantids as they blazed into the atmosphere. pic.twitter.com/ETdMRK1d86

— Christina H Koch (@Astro_Christina) January 6, 2020

Besides a number of blazing meteors, the composite image also shows green bands of the aurora borealis, or northern lights.

In December, Koch set the record for in December, longest single spaceflight by a woman and she will stay on the International Space Station until February 2020, according to NASA’s schedule.

Image: @astro_christina

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