                         Astronomy Picture of the Day

                         Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                           professional astronomer.

                               2018 September 8
                                      [2]
                              Real Time Perseid
        Video Credit & Copyright [3] : Till Credner, AlltheSky.com [4]

Explanation: Bright meteors [5]  and dark night skies made this year's Perseid
meteor shower a great time for a weekend campout. And while packing away their
equipment, skygazers at a campsite in the mountains of southern Germany found
at least one more reason to linger under the stars, witnessing this brief but
colorful flash with their own eyes. Presented as a 50 frame gif [6] , the two
second long video was captured during the morning twilight of August 12. In
real time it shows the development of the typical [7]  green train of a bright
Perseid meteor. A much fainter Perseid is just visible farther to the right.
Plowing through [8] Earth's atmosphere at 60 kilometers per second, Perseids
are fast enough to excite the characteristic green emission of atomic oxygen
at altitudes of 100 kilometers or so.

                    Tomorrow's picture: cosmic crustacean

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