Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Mon Jan 07 2019 10:41:58 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 January 7 [2] Stars, Meteors, and a Comet in Taurus Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Juan Carlos Casado [4] (TWAN [5] , Earth and Stars [6] ) Explanation: This was an unusual night to look in the direction of the Bull. The constellation Taurus [7] is always well known for hosting two bright star clusters -- the Pleaides [8] , visible on the right, and the comparatively diffuse Hyades [9] , visible on the left. This night last month, however, was atypically the peak of the Geminid meteor shower [10] , and so several meteors were caught shooting through the constellation with parallel trails [11] . More unusually still, Comet Wirtanen [12] was drifting through the constellation, here appearing near the image bottom surrounded by a greenish coma. The comet [13] was near its brightest as it sped past [14] the Earth. The orange star on the upper left is Aldebaran [15] , considered to be the eye of the Bull. Aldebaran is the brightest star in Taurus and the 15th brightest star [16] in the sky. The featured image is a combination of nearly 800 exposures taken from the Spanish [17] village Albanyà [18] . Follow APOD on: Instagram [19] , Facebook [20] , Reddit [21] , or Twitter [22] Tomorrow's picture: high energy sky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [23] | Archive [24] | Submissions [25] | Index [26] | Search [27] | Calendar [28] | RSS [29] | Education [30] | About APOD [31] | Discuss [32] | > [33] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [34] (MTU [35] ) & Jerry Bonnell [36] (UMCP [37] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [38] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [39] A service of: ASD [40] at NASA [41] / GSFC [42] & Michigan Tech. U. [43] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1901/Geminids46P_jcc_2000.jpg [3] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [4] http://www.twanight.org/casado [5] http://www.twanight.org [6] http://starryearth.com/ [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_(constellation) [8] ap150617.html [9] ap121224.html [10] ap171222.html [11] https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo/basic-geo-angle/ angles-between-lines/e/parallel_lines_1 [12] http://www.cometwatch.co.uk/comet-46p-wirtanen/ [13] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/in-depth/ [14] ap181216.html [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain [18] https://youtu.be/zIIR23JzfXE [19] https://www.instagram.com/astronomypicturesdaily/ [20] https://www.facebook.com/AstronomyPictureOfTheDay [21] https://www.reddit.com/r/apod [22] http://twitter.com/apod/ [23] ap190106.html [24] archivepix.html [25] lib/apsubmit2015.html [26] lib/aptree.html [27] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [28] calendar/allyears.html [29] /apod.rss [30] lib/edlinks.html [31] lib/about_apod.html [32] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190107 [33] ap190108.html [34] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [35] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [36] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [37] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [38] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [39] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [40] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [41] https://www.nasa.gov/ [42] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [43] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .