Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Right before his eyes a tremendous smoking fireball streaked across the daytime sky. Years later, as an accomplished member of the Guild of Aviation Artists , he recorded his memories in the above painting . Tonight and tomorrow mark the peak of this year's Leonid meteor shower . Although any individual observer is unlikely to see a fireball as spectacular as this one, observers in dark locations might witness as many as hundreds of transient streaks of light emanating from the constellation of Leo across a morning moonlit sky.
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