Meteor Over Persia (2011)
Photograph by Babak Tafreshi, TWAN
A “shooting star” streaks the sky over ruins in Damghan—an ancient Iraniancity 224 miles (360 kilometers) northeast of Tehran—early Tuesday during the peak of the 2011 Quadrantid meteor shower. This year, 2012, the Quadrantids peak featured rates of more than a hundred meteors an hour.
(via rendan)
