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[NASA] APOD: 2026 August 15 – Bright Perseids from Sweden

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

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Bright Perseids from Sweden

Explanation: Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual

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from a radiant in the heroic constellation Perseus. The popular northern summer celestial spectacle is created as grains of dust cast off
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of periodic comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle
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in Earth’s dense atmosphere, tracing brief, but beautiful
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. Taken near the shower’s peak of activity on August 12, this composite image recorded two bright perseid meteors and one meteor’s watery reflection from a location near the coastal village of Grisslehamn, Sweden. Almost as bright as Altair, brightest star on the scene, the meteors appear along with the faint, diffuse background of the Milky Way. This year, the shower’s peak activity coincided with a New Moon, so perseid meteor flashes were undiminished by
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. And for many skywatchers, this night of bright perseid meteors followed
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of the silhouette of the New Moon in a much anticipated
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Tomorrow’s picture: Milky Way over Yellowstone

Date August 15, 2026
Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (
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Authors & editors: Jerry Bonnell, Cecilia Chirenti, Robert Nemiroff, Keighley Rockcliffe
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