Planets, Comets and Asteroids
The most brain-bending photo of the bunch may be “A Colurful Quadrantid Meteor” by Frank Kuszaj. Taken in Cook Station, Missouri in January 2021, the photograph captures a meteor from the now-obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis. The photographer was expecting to take pictures of more distant objects that night, like galaxies, but after setting up to do so, a meteor appeared.
The photograph was something of an accident, as Kuszaj intended to zoom in on the meteor but didn’t. The resulting composition was the fireball’s streak across the sky, exposed over the course of a full minute. Because the photo captures the meteor’s path instead of the object itself, it looks like someone took a pair of scissors to spacetime, cutting a thin line through which some new dimension might exist.
