Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]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. 2020 July 23 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Fairytale NEOWISE Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Stephane Guisard ([5]Los Cielos de America, [6]TWAN) Explanation: Comet dust falls through a twilight sky in this dream-like scene, but it's not part of a fairytale movie. Still, [7]Castle Neuschwanstein, nestled in the Bavarian Alps, did inspire Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle. Captured on July 20, the bright streak above the castle towers is likely a Perseid meteor. Though it peaks near mid-August, the annual summer [8]meteor shower is active now. The meteor trail over the fairytale castle can be traced back to the shower's radiant in the heroic constellation Perseus off the top right of the frame. [9]Perseid meteors are produced by dust from periodic [10]Comet Swift-Tuttle. With its [11]own broad dust tail now sweeping through northern skies the celestial apparition above the distant horizon is planet Earth's current [12]darling, Comet NEOWISE. Comet NEOWISE Images: July [13]22 || [14]21 || [15]20 || [16]19 || [17]18 || [18]17 || [19]16 || [20]15 || [21]14 || [22]13 || [23]12 || [24]11 || [25]10 & earlier || Tomorrow's picture: Magic NEOWISE __________________________________________________________________ [26]< | [27]Archive | [28]Submissions | [29]Index | [30]Search | [31]Calendar | [32]RSS | [33]Education | [34]About APOD | [35]Discuss | [36]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [37]Robert Nemiroff ([38]MTU) & [39]Jerry Bonnell ([40]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [41]Specific rights apply. [42]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [43]ASD at [44]NASA / [45]GSFC & [46]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2007/SGUNeuschwansteinNeowiseIMG2532-1920.jpg 3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 4. http://www.twanight.org/guisard 5. http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/ 6. http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/index.asp 7. https://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/tourist/index.htm 8. https://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/#Perseids 9. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/perseids/in-depth/ 10. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/109p-swift-tuttle/in-depth/ 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200722.html 12. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-to-see-comet-neowise 13. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2791480564289478 14. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2788719517898916 15. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2785638668207001 16. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2782816315155903 17. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2780194295418105 18. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2777399215697613 19. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2774271299343738 20. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2771109812993220 21. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2768509129919955 22. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2765647693539432 23. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2762832093820992 24. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2759891040781764 25. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=APOD.Sky&set=a.2741239435980258 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200722.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 30. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 32. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 33. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 35. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200723 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200724.html 37. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 38. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 39. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 40. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 41. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 42. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 43. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 44. https://www.nasa.gov/ 45. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 46. http://www.mtu.edu/