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                               2024 August 14
   [2]A night sky filled with stars is colored partly purple by an aurora.
      Also visible are several streaks which are meteors in this image
   composite. In the foreground is a field and lone tree. Part of the tree
    slants at the nearly the same angle of the meteor streaks. Please see
               the explanation for more detailed information.

                       Meteors and Aurora over Germany
                 Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Chantal Anders

   Explanation: This was an unusual night. For one thing, the night sky of
   August 11 and 12, earlier this week, occurred near the peak of the
   annual [4]Perseid Meteor Shower. Therefore, meteors streaked across the
   dark night as small bits cast off from [5]Comet Swift-Tuttle came
   crashing into the [6]Earth's atmosphere. Even more unusually, for
   central [7]Germany at least, the night [8]sky glowed purple. The
   red-blue hue was due to aurora caused by an [9]explosion of particles
   from the [10]Sun a few days before. [11]This auroral storm was so
   intense that it was seen as far south as [12]Texas and [13]Italy, in
   Earth's northern hemisphere. The [14]featured image composite was built
   from 7 exposures taken over 26 minutes from [15]Ense, [16]Germany. The
   Perseids occur [17]predictably every August, but auroras visible this
   far south are more unusual and less predictable.

             Gallery: [18]Perseid Meteor Shower 2024 and Aurorae
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