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A composite showing the 2017 Geminid meteors streaking from the radiant point in Gemini at upper left, above the blue-white star Castor. 2 or 3 meteors are not Geminids as their paths do not project back to the radiant. The meteor paths are shorter closer to the radiant and lengthen away from the radiant. Orion and its red nebulas are at right. The Beehive star cluster, M44, is at lower left. Sirius is the bright star at lower right. Taken December 13/14, during the very active 2017 Geminid meteor shower, and shot from southeast Arizona, USA. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alan Dyer/VWPics/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)