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                                  2025 August 16   
      
                           A Cool GIF of a 2025 Perseid   
                 Image Credit & Copyright: Renaud & Olivier Coppe   
      
      Explanation: The camera battery died about 2am local time on August 12,   
      while shooting in the bright moonlit skies from a garden in Chastre,   
      Brabant Wallon, Belgium, planet Earth. But not before it captured the   
      frames used to compose this cool animated gif of a brilliant Perseid   
      meteor and a lingering visible trail known as a persistent train. The   
      Perseid meteor, a fast moving speck of dust from the tail of large   
      periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle, was heated to incandescence by ram   
      pressure and vaporized as it flashed through the upper atmosphere at 60   
      kilometers per second. Compared to the brief flash of the meteor, its   
      wraith-like trail really is persistent. A characteristic of bright   
      meteors, a smoke-like persistent train can often be followed for many   
      minutes wafting in the winds at altitudes of 60 to 90 kilometers.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: cloudy skies   
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