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                                   2022 April 28   
      
                                 Lyrid of the Lake   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)   
      
      Explanation: In the early hours of April 24 this bright Lyrid meteor   
      flashed along the central Milky Way. For a moment, it cast a bright   
      reflection across Lake Nian, Yunnan province, China. The annual Lyrid   
      meteor shower, one of the oldest known, is active in late April, as our   
      fair planet plows through dust left along the orbit of long-period   
      comet Thatcher. The trail of the bright fireball points back toward the   
      shower's radiant in the constellation Lyra high in the northern   
      springtime sky and off the top of the frame. Just rising in that starry   
      sky, light from a third quarter moon also cast a glow on the peaceful   
      waters of the lake.   
      
                    Tomorrow's picture: a springtime appetizer   
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