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Imagine standing in a dark field at midnight. The Leonids return November 17 — the fastest meteors of all. In 1833 they fell like rain, a hundred thousand an hour. Would you stay out all night to watch? Follow for a new space fact every day. #StarryNight

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00:00Imagine standing in a dark field at midnight. The Milky Way pours across the sky like spilled milk.
00:06A streak of light races past, a grain of comet dust burning up overhead.
00:11These are the Leonids, and on November 17th they return, the fastest meteors of all.
00:17In 1833 they fell like rain, a hundred thousand an hour, and people thought the world was ending.
00:24Would you stay out all night to watch? Follow for a new space fact every day.

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