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Explanation:It looks like a view from the Little Prince‘s planet.
Thefeatured imageis a throwback to the2024 Perseid meteor shower, surrounded in thisprojectionby the Bieszczady MountainsinPoland.
Visible in the sky is the arch of the Milky Way, along with severalnebulasin red and over a hundred meteors pointing to theradiant.
The Perseids areeasily visibleand quite popular in the Northern Hemisphere summer.
This year they are expected to offer an even more dazzling spectacle than usual, because thepeakcoincides with anew moon.
The 2026 Perseid meteor shower will peak tonight with as many as50-100 meteors per hour, when the Earth’s path crosses through debris left behind byComet Swift-Tuttle.
Typically, thebest timesfor seeing the meteors are between midnight and pre-dawn.
You won’t need binoculars tosee the meteors, but a lawn chair and a dark sky location help.
NASA Stream:August 12 Total Solar Eclipse. Tomorrow’s picture:pixels in space