APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids

NASA Science's Astronomy Picture of the Day features a composite all-sky view from an observatory in Czechia, built from four meteor-monitoring cameras on the night of August twelfth and thirteenth. The combined images captured one thousand seven hundred six meteors, with the vast majority belonging to the Perseid shower, all tracing back to a radiant in the constellation Perseus. The image also reveals fainter streams, including the Kappa Cygnids and the antihelion complex near Aquarius, showing how a single night's sky can hold multiple meteor showers. It's a reminder that careful tracking of meteor trails can reveal the different sources behind a night of shooting stars.

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