Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
A Sky Filled with Leonids
Explanation:
In the early morning hours of November 19, amateur Chen Huang-Ming caught a sky filled with astronomical wonders. With his fisheye [ http://www.zeta.org…] camera set up on Ho-Huan Mountain in Taiwan [ http://www.cia.gov/…] for a half-hour exposure, he started the above image a local time of 2:33 am. First, the many famous stars and nebulas captured are too numerous to count. Planets Jupiter [ http://www.nineplan…] and Saturn [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] are visible, while the plane [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of our Milky Way Galaxy [ http://www.seds.org…] sweeps diagonally across the image. What makes this image most spectacular, however, are the over 100 bright meteors [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] visible from the 2001 Leonids Meteor Shower [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…Leonids ]. The meteor shower [ http://www.skypub.c…] is caused by the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] plowing through a stream of sand-sized ice particles shed years ago by Comet Tempel-Tuttle [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Note that the meteors [ http://www.nineplan…] can all be tracked back to a radiant [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in the constellation [ http://www.att.virt…] Leo [ http://www.astro.wi…], the direction from which the particles [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] orbit the Sun.
Credit and Copyright:
Chen Huang-Ming [ mailto:ngc5128@seed. net.tw ]
keyword:
Leonids
keyword:
Galactic Plane
keyword:
fisheye
facet_where:
Milky Way Galaxy
facet_where:
Saturn
facet_where:
Jupiter
facet_where:
Taiwan
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Saturn
facet_what:
Jupiter
facet_what:
Leo
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap011205

A Sky Filled with Leonids
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