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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2022 August 7   
      
                               Meteor before Galaxy   
                 Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich   
      
      Explanation: What's that green streak in front of the Andromeda galaxy?   
      A meteor. While photographing the Andromeda galaxy in 2016, near the   
      peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, a small pebble from deep space   
      crossed right in front of our Milky Way Galaxy's far-distant companion.   
      The small meteor took only a fraction of a second to pass through this   
      10-degree field. The meteor flared several times while braking   
      violently upon entering Earth's atmosphere. The green color was   
      created, at least in part, by the meteor's gas glowing as it vaporized.   
      Although the exposure was timed to catch a Perseid meteor, the   
      orientation of the imaged streak seems a better match to a meteor from   
      the Southern Delta Aquariids, a meteor shower that peaked a few weeks   
      earlier. Not coincidentally, the Perseid Meteor Shower peaks later this   
      week, although this year the meteors will have to outshine a sky   
      brightened by a nearly full moon.   
      
                       Tomorrow's picture: celestial lagoon   
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