The Meteor and the Galaxy

It came from outer anguish. It — on this case a sand-sized little bit of a comet nucleus — used to be likely ejected decades previously from Sun-orbiting Comet Swift-Tuttle, but then persevered to orbit the Sun alone. When the Earth crossed thru this orbit, the piece of comet debris impacted the atmosphere of our stunning planet and used to be considered as a meteor. This meteor deteriorated, inflicting gases to be emitted that glowed in colors emitted by its ingredient parts. The featured image used to be taken last week from Castilla La Mancha, Spain, all the draw thru the cease evening of the Perseids meteor shower. The picturesque meteor race happened to appear in essentially the most classic one of 50 frames that also included the Andromeda galaxy. Stars dot the frame, each and each powerful extra away than the meteor. In contrast with the stars, the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is, all another time, powerful extra away.