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The showerhead effect

Janet Leigh in Psycho
(Paramount/Universal Pictures, 1960)

The meteor tracks for the Perseid meteor shower appear to diverge from the constellation Perseus (which is the epynomous "radiant" for that meteor shower). Although these meteor tracks are essentially parallel, they appear to radiate outwards from that point in the sky due to "The Showerhead Effect."

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