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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Meteor and the Star Cluster
NASA ^ | 25 Aug, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Yousif Alqasimi & Essa Al Jasmi

Posted on 08/25/2025 12:38:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Sometimes even the sky surprises you. To see more stars and faint nebulosity in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), long exposures are made. Many times, less interesting items appear on the exposures that were not intended -- but later edited out. These include stuck pixels, cosmic ray hits, frames with bright clouds or Earth's Moon, airplane trails, lens flares, faint satellite trails, and even insect trails. Sometimes, though, something really interesting is caught by chance. That was just the case a few weeks ago in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia when a bright meteor streaked across during an hour-long exposure of the Pleiades. Along with the famous bright blue stars, less famous and less bright blue stars, and blue-reflecting dust surrounding the star cluster, the fast rock fragment created a distinctive green glow, likely due to vaporized metals.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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1 posted on 08/25/2025 12:38:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 08/25/2025 12:38:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; A_perfect_lady; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 08/25/2025 12:39:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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That is a once in a lifetime shot!


4 posted on 08/25/2025 12:55:08 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: MtnClimber

The Subaru in Japan.


5 posted on 08/25/2025 1:15:58 PM PDT by moreisee (The Media is the enemy.)
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Kinda reminds me of The Falcon: Star Wars’ universal version of the Irish goodbye. One second you’re vibing near a planet, the next—boom, hyperspace.


6 posted on 08/25/2025 6:40:57 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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