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Purple Rain

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This year’s Geminid meteor shower looks all purple and neon, like an old Prince video. But we’re sure the asteroid/ex-comet 3200 Phaeton never meant to cause us any sorrow by throwing off debris every December. That’s a peak from the Seven Sisters rock formation in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada in the foreground. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images.

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