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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                                  2024 December 6   
      
                           Xuyi Station and the Fireball   
              Image Credit & Copyright: Hao Liu (Stanford University)   
      
      Explanation: Colorful and bright, this streaking fireball meteor was   
      captured in a single exposure taken at Purple Mountain (Tsuchinshan)   
      ObservatoryCÇÖs Xuyi Station in 2020, during planet Earth's annual   
      Perseid meteor shower. The dome in the foreground houses the China Near   
      Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST), the largest multi-purpose   
      Schmidt telescope in China. Located in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province,   
      the station began its operation as an extension of China's Purple   
      Mountain Observatory in 2006. Darling of planet Earth's night skies in   
      2024, the bright comet designated Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) was   
      discovered in images taken there on 2023 January 9. The discovery is   
      jointly credited to NASA's ATLAS robotic survey telescope at Sutherland   
      Observatory, South Africa. Other comet discoveries associated with the   
      historic Purple Mountain Observatory and bearing the observatory's   
      transliterated Mandarin name include periodic comets 60/P Tsuchinshan   
      and 62/P Tsuchinshan.   
      
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