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                              2024 February 17
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                        Meteor over the Bay of Naples
       Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Wang Letian ([5]Eyes at Night)

   Explanation: A cosmic dust grain plowing through the upper atmosphere
   much faster than [6]a falling leaf created this brilliant [7]meteor
   streak. In a serendipitous moment, the sublime night sky view was
   captured from the resort island of Capri, in the Bay of Naples, on the
   evening of February 8. Looking across the bay, the camera faces
   northeast toward the lights of Naples and surrounding cities. Pointing
   toward the horizon, the [8]meteor streak by chance ends above the
   silhouette of Mount Vesuvius. One of planet Earth's most famous
   volcanos, an eruption of [9]Mount Vesuvius destroyed the city of
   Pompeii [10]in 79 AD.

                     Tomorrow's picture: nearly perfect
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