2021 August 03 - A Perseid Fireball and the Milky Way

In today's image, we see a fireball from the Perseid meteor shower from 2018. A fireball is a larger meteor that appears much brighter in the sky and is caused by a larger object than the typical grain of sand that forms an ordinary meteor.

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