Copyright:
Stéphane Guisard
(Los Cielos de
America),
TWAN
原文:
From a radiant point in the constellation of the Twins, the annual Geminid meteor shower rain down on planet Earth. Tonight, the Geminds reach their peak and could be quite spectacular. The featured blended image, however, captured the shower’s impressive peak in the year 2012. The beautiful skyscape collected Gemini’s lovely shooting stars in a careful composite of 30 exposures, each 20 seconds long, from the dark of the Chilean Atacama Desert over ESO’s Paranal Observatory. In the foreground Paranal’s four Very Large Telescopes, four Auxillary Telescopes, and the VLT Survey telescope are all open and observing. The skies above are shared with bright Jupiter (left), Orion, (top left), and the faint light of the Milky Way. Dust swept up from the orbit of active asteroid 3200 Phaethon, Gemini’s meteors enter Earth’s atmosphere traveling at about 22 kilometers per second. Tonight: Join NASA’s Geminids Tweet Chat
中文翻譯:
今晚，來自雙子座的Gemind流星雨將達到高峰，可能會為地球帶來壯觀的景象。這張精美的合成圖片捕捉了2012年流星雨的令人印象深刻的高峰。這幅來自智利的阿塔卡馬沙漠的美麗天空畫面，通過30次曝光的組合，每次持續20秒，展示了雙子座的迷人流星。在前景中，Paranal天文台的四台大型天文望遠鏡、四台輔助望遠鏡以及VLT調查望遠鏡均在運作中觀測。頭頂的天空裡閃爍著明亮的木星（左邊）、獵戶座（左上方）和微弱的銀河光芒。源自活躍小行星3200 Phaethon軌道的塵埃劃過，雙子座的流星以每小時約22公里的速度進入地球大氣層。
今晚：加入NASA的Geminds推特聊天！
#Geminids #MeteorShower #Astronomy #Astrophotography #PeralamObservatory #Meteorwatch #SpaceExploration #NASA #Gemini #StarsAndSky
來源:NASA每日圖片
