NASA · Space

Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way Captured

An Astronomy Picture of the Day features a Perseid meteor streaking across the night sky, mirrored by the large telescope mirror in the foreground.

The image, taken on August 15 from La Palma, Canary Islands, shows a bright meteor trail next to the central Milky Way. The foreground features the 23-meter mirror of the prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1).

LST-1 is the first telescope at the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory's northern hemisphere site. It is designed to detect brief, visible light flashes triggered by energetic gamma-rays from cosmic sources.

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