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Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander & Dorje Angchuk;
Music: Tea Time via PremiumBeat
Explanation:
Have you ever experienced a meteor shower?
To help capture the
wonder,
a video was taken during the peak of the recent
Perseid meteor shower
above the
Indian Astronomical Observatory in
Hanle,
India, high up in the
Himalayan mountains.
Night descends as
the video begins, with the central plane of our
Milky Way Galaxy approaching from the left and
Earth-orbiting satellites
zipping by overhead.
During the night, the
flash of meteors
that usually takes less than a second is artificially extended.
The green glow of most meteors is typically caused by vaporizing
nickel.
As the video continues, Orion rises and
meteors flare above the 2-meter
Himalayan Chandra Telescope and the seven barrels of the
High
Energy Gamma Ray Telescope (Hagar).
The 2 minute 30 second
movie
ends with the
Sun rising, preceded by a
false dawn of zodiacal light.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Perseids
Publications with words: Perseids
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