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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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                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                  2025 August 21   
      
                                  Mostly Perseids   
                    Image Credit & Copyright: Klaus Pillwatsch   
      
      Explanation: In this predawn skyscape recorded during the early morning   
      hours of August 13, mostly Perseid meteors are raining down on planet   
      Earth. You can easily identify the Perseid meteor streaks. They're the   
      ones with trails that seem to converge on the annual meteor shower's   
      radiant, a spot in the heroic constellation Perseus, located off the   
      top of the frame. That's the direction in Earth's sky that looks along   
      the orbit of this meteor shower's parent, periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle.   
      Of course the scene is a composite, a combination of about 500 digital   
      exposures to capture meteors registered with a single base frame   
      exposure. But all exposures were taken during a period of around 2.5   
      hours from a wind farm near M++nchhof, Burgenland, Austria. Red lights   
      on the individual wind turbine towers dot the foreground. In their   
      spectacular close conjunction, bright planets Jupiter and Venus are   
      poised above the eastern horizon.   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space   
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