Posted on 08/07/2022 4:47:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What's that green streak in front of the Andromeda galaxy? A meteor. While photographing the Andromeda galaxy in 2016, near the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, a small pebble from deep space crossed right in front of our Milky Way Galaxy's far-distant companion. The small meteor took only a fraction of a second to pass through this 10-degree field. The meteor flared several times while braking violently upon entering Earth's atmosphere. The green color was created, at least in part, by the meteor's gas glowing as it vaporized. Although the exposure was timed to catch a Perseid meteor, the orientation of the imaged streak seems a better match to a meteor from the Southern Delta Aquariids, a meteor shower that peaked a few weeks earlier. Not coincidentally, the Perseid Meteor Shower peaks later this week, although this year the meteors will have to outshine a sky brightened by a nearly full moon.
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Obviously an alien starship going past the light barrier... /S
The light from the Andromeda galaxy travels for 2.5 million years to reach earth, only to be photo-bombed by a rock flying through the earth’s atmosphere.
I never get to see the Perseid shower here in southern AZ. It’s monsoon season and the sky is cloudy every night.
Duct tape will fix that.
;-)
Now that is the shot of a lifetime!
Well, it’s the Green Lantern of course...
Or maybe an alien ship from the green planet Venus...
You decide...
This is true.
The Mercury Meteor came before the Ford Galaxy....................
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