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                                2022 April 28
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                              Lyrid of the Lake
             Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Jeff Dai ([5]TWAN)

   Explanation: In the early hours of April 24 this bright [6]Lyrid meteor
   flashed along the central Milky Way. For a moment, it cast a bright
   reflection across Lake Nian, Yunnan province, China. [7]The annual
   Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known, is active in late April,
   as our fair planet plows through dust left along the orbit of
   long-period comet Thatcher. The trail of the bright [8]fireball points
   back toward [9]the shower's radiant in the constellation Lyra high in
   the northern springtime sky and off the top of the frame. Just rising
   in that starry sky, light from a third quarter moon also cast a glow on
   the peaceful waters of the lake.

                 Tomorrow's picture: a springtime appetizer
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