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what's up for January morning meteors

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Mars meets its rival and the moon comes

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around for another visit with Venus the

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early morning of January 4th brings the

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peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower

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this annual shower can be one of the

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better ones of the year although it has

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a much shorter peak than most other

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meteor showers just a few hours versus a

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day or two the visibility of meteor

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showers from year to year has a lot to

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do with whether there's a bright moon in

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the sky at the time or not this year the

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moon will set soon after midnight local

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time meaning viewing conditions should

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be good provided your local skies are

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not obscured by winter weather face

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toward the Northeast between midnight

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and Dawn to see as many as two dozen

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meteors per hour under dark skies and

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the farther away you get from city

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lights the darker it'll be so bundle up

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and be sure to give your eyes a little

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time to adapt to the dark including a

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break from your mobile device in order

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to see the maximum number of meteors

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Mars rises before dawn during January

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with its rival the red giant star

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Antares the name of this star translates

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as rival to Mars in ancient Greek and

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the star rivals of the red planet's

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appearance to the unaided eye both in

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color and brightness in reality Antares

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is way way bigger than Mars in fact it's

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much bigger than the orbit of Mars it's

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about ten thousand times brighter than

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our Sun but it's also sixteen million

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times farther away from us than Mars is

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so like all stars even though it's

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really bright it appears as just a tiny

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flickering point of light in the night

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sky you can view the pair low in the

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southeast about an hour before sunrise

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each morning near the beginning of

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January Mars appears above Antares as

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the day's progress the planet moves

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lower and to the east of dent aries

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they're joined by a slim lunar Crescent

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on January 20th for what should be a

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very pretty grouping

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and as we start 2020 NASA is looking

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forward to the launch of the Mars 2020

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Rover mission it's slated to blast off

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in July to seek signs of ancient life in

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a fossilized River Delta on the red

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planet closing out the month the

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crescent moon and Venus once again make

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for a gorgeous sight at the end of

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January on the same day of the month as

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they did back in December On January

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28th you'll find the pair hovering in

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the southwest in the hour or so after

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sunset that evening so be sure to go out

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and take a look here are the phases of

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the Moon for January you can catch up on

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all of NASA's current and future

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missions at nasa.gov I'm Preston dykes

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from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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and that's what's up for this month