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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2025 August 2   
      
                         Fireflies, Meteors, and Milky Way   
                      Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Korona   
      
      Explanation: Taken on July 29 and July 30, a registered and stacked   
      series of exposures creates this dreamlike view of a northern summer   
      night. Multiple firefly flashes streak across the foreground as the   
      luminous Milky Way arcs above the horizon in the Sierra de +ôrganos   
      national park of central Mexico, The collection of bright streaks   
      aligned across the sky toward the upper left in the timelapse image are   
      Delta Aquariid meteors   
      . Currently active, the annual Delta Aquarid meteor shower shares   
      August nights though, overlapping with the better-known Perseid meteor   
      shower. This year that makes post-midnight, mostly moonless skies in   
      early August very popular with late night skygazers. How can you tell a   
      Delta Aquariid from a Perseid meteor? The streaks of Perseid meteors   
      can be traced back to an apparent radiant in the constellation Perseus.   
      Delta Aquariids appear to emerge from the more southerly constellation   
      Aquarius, beyond the top left of this frame. Of course, the   
      bioluminescent flashes of fireflies are common too on these northern   
      summer nights. But how can you tell a firefly from a meteor? Just try   
      to catch one.   
      
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