Shining Meteor, Starry Sky

Plowing via Earth’s atmosphere at 60 kilometers per 2d, this colorful perseid meteor streaks alongside a starry Milky Device. Captured in unlit Portugal skies on August 12, it strikes actual to left via the frame. Its colourful shuffle begins shut to Deneb (alpha Cygni) and ends shut to Altair (alpha Aquilae), stars of the northern summer triangle. In fact this perseid meteor very temporarily outshines each and every, two of the brightest stars in planet Earth’s night. The shuffle’s initial greenish glow is same outdated of the colorful perseid shower meteors. The grains of cosmic sand, swept up mud from periodic comet Swift-Tuttle, are moving speedily adequate to excite the characteristic green emission of atomic oxygen at altitudes of 100 kilometers or so sooner than vaporizing in an luminous flash. Essential APOD Checklist Submissions: Perseid Meteor Bathe 2021