Watch video: Hawaii telescope captures rare meteor outburst
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Recently, on 14 July, the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii captured an amazing video of dozens of meteors that blazed across the starry skies above Mauna Kea, Hawaii. A meteor is a piece of space rock.
What is Mauna Kea?
Mauna Kea is a dormant (sleeping) volcano in Hawaii, US. It is the highest mountain on Earth (when measured from its base at the bottom of the sea)
What is the Subaru Telescope?
The Subaru Telescope (Subaru Bōenkyō) is an astronomy telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. It is located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii, United States.
This video, which you can see below, captures a very rare sight. The video captured more than a dozen meteors come from the same direction within a 10-second time period.
How do they occur?
Scientists say that such groups of meteors see together must have likely come from larger meteors that broke up due to extra heat from the Sun.
Such meteor clusters have been caught on video only a few times before. The event was first identified in 1997. They can tell us more about what the bigger meteors are made up of.
Watch the video of the meteor event below. Video credit: 管理人_すばる/Youtube
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