Radiant (meteor shower) Radiant (meteor shower) The radiant or apparent radiant of a meteor shower is the celestial point in the sky from which (from the point of view of a terrestrial observer) the paths of meteors appear to originate. The Perseids, for example, are meteors which appear to come from a point within the constellation of Perseus. Meteor paths appear at random locations in the sky, but the apparent paths of two or more meteors from the same shower will converge at the radiant. The radiant is the vanishing point of the meteor paths, which are parallel lines in three-dimensional space, as
Parallel Lines make "Parallel Lines" an extremely popular album in the United Kingdom, where it was a number-one hit and charted for 106 weeks during the late 1970s. "Q" magazine called the album "a crossover smash with sparkling guitar sounds, terrific hooks and middle-eights more memorable than some groups' choruses." In a retrospective appraisal of 1970s post-punk albums, "Spin" magazine's Sasha Frere-Jones said "Parallel Lines" may have been "the perfect pop-rock record" and Blondie's best album. Christian John Wikane from "PopMatters" later called it "a creative and commercial masterpiece by Blondie ... indisputably one of the great, classic albums of the rock