Island Universe, Cosmic Sand

Stars in our enjoy Milky Manner galaxy are scattered through this watch-catching self-discipline of behold. From the early hours after heart of the night on August 13, the 30 2d exposure of the evening sky over Busko-Zdroj, Poland records the shiny and incandescent scoot of a Perseid meteor. Considered shut to the height of the annual Perseid meteor shower it flashes from lower left to better honest. The hurtling grain of cosmic sand, a fraction of mud from periodic comet Swift-Tuttle, vaporized as it passed through planet Earth’s atmosphere at nearly 60 kilometers per 2d. Fair above and honest of heart, successfully previous the stars of the Milky Manner, lies the island universe identified as M31 or the Andromeda galaxy. The Andromeda galaxy is mainly the most a long way-off object with out concerns visible to the bare-watch, about 2.5 million light-years away. The visible meteor scoot begins ultimate about 100 kilometers above Earth’s surface, despite the fact that. It aspects abet to the meteor shower exquisite in the constellation Perseus off the lower left edge of the physique. Follow this incandescent perseid meteor scoot under and left to the stars of NGC 869and NGC 884, the double well-known person cluster in Perseus. Essential APOD Image Submissions: Perseid Meteor Shower 2021