{"id":861239,"date":"2026-09-26T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861239\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:22:09","slug":"apod-2026-september-26-mirrored-meteor-and-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861239\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 September 26 \u2013 Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: On August 15, this <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod\/apod-2026-august-15-bright-perseids-from-sweden\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">perseid meteor<\/a> streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The bright and colorful meteor trail was captured next to the central Milky Way, whose dark interstellar dust clouds and luminous starlight reach above the horizon. In the foreground of this tantalizing celestial scene is the 23 meter diameter mirror of the prototype <a href=\"https:\/\/lst.iac.es\/info\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Large-Sized Telescope<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctao.org\/news-resources\/outreach-and-education\/ctao-for-educators\/lst-paper-model\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LST-1<\/a>). LST-1 is the first telescope constructed at the northern hemisphere site of the innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctao.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory<\/a>. With 198 hexagonal mirror segments and a large, high-efficiency, pixelized camera, LST-1 is designed to detect extremely brief, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2016-august-20-gamma-rays-and-comet-dust\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">atmospheric visible light flashes<\/a>. Lasting about a billionth of a second, the visible light flashes are triggered by energetic gamma-rays from cosmic sources such as <a href=\"https:\/\/lst.iac.es\/news\/lst-magic-detect-OP313-paper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">distant active galaxies<\/a> and gamma-ray bursts. Of course, on that night some individual mirror segments of LST-1 also reflected the atmospheric flash of the bright perseid meteor.<\/p>\n<p>APOD&#8217;s email for image submissions has changed. Please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/lib\/apsubmit2015.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">APOD Submissions<\/a>.<br \/>APOD&#8217;s main NASA site is <a href=\"https:\/\/asterisk.apod.com\/viewtopic.php?t=45023\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moving<\/a>: From <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">apod.nasa.gov<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/apod\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">science.nasa.gov\/apod<\/a><br \/>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: before and after\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: On August 15, this perseid meteor streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[337743,79,193],"class_list":["post-861239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}