Posted on 12/16/2021 3:27:43 PM PST by MtnClimber
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.
Explanation: Fireflies flash along a moonlit countryside in this scene taken on the night of December 13/14 from southern Uruguay, planet Earth. On that night meteors fell in the partly cloudy skies above during the annual Geminid meteor shower. Frames recorded over a period of 1.5 hours are aligned in the composite image made with the camera facing south. That direction was opposite the shower's radiant toward the north and so the Geminid meteor streaks appear to converge at an antiradiant below the southern horizon. The shower's apparent radiant (and antiradiant) is just due to perspective though. As Earth sweeps through the dust trail of mysterious asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the dust grains that create the Geminid shower meteors are really moving along parallel tracks. They enter Earth's atmosphere traveling at about 22 kilometers per second.
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Pinging the APOD list.
Thanks for posting these.
They are always so interesting and some beautiful photography.
Wow! Fantastic image. Thanks for posting!
Reminds me of the tree at the end of “Knowing”.
I keep getting blocked from Nada site...HSTS or something
NASA Site
I just went there on the thread link with no problems.
Hhmmm...I use Brave on my phone..
This is message I get..
“You cannot visit apod.nasa.gov right now because the website uses HSTS. Network errors and attacks are usually temporary, so this page will probably work later.”
That photo shows a squadron of alien spacecraft flying overhead.
Very down-to-earth.
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