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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2024 July 14   
       A distant spiral galaxy is seen in the image center. A multi-colored   
        streak runs diagonally across the image from the upper left to the   
       lower right. Parts of this streak have gas near it. The background is   
         dark field filled with stars. Please see the explanation for more   
                               detailed information.   
      
                               Meteor Misses Galaxy   
                         Credit & Copyright: Aman Chokshi   
      
      Explanation: The galaxy was never in danger. For one thing, the   
      Triangulum galaxy (M33), pictured, is much bigger than the tiny grain   
      of rock at the head of the meteor. For another, the galaxy is much   
      farther away -- in this instance 3 million light years as opposed to   
      only about 0.0003 light seconds. Even so, the meteor's path took it   
      angularly below the galaxy. Also the wind high in Earth's atmosphere   
      blew the meteor's glowing evaporative molecule train away from the   
      galaxy, in angular projection. Still, the astrophotographer was quite   
      lucky to capture both a meteor and a galaxy in a single exposure --   
      which was subsequently added to two other images of M33 to bring up the   
      spiral galaxy's colors. At the end, the meteor was gone in a second,   
      but the galaxy will last billions of years.   
      
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