Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya (APOD)

za mai 2009 goda.

Meteor Lirid i Mlechnyi put'
1.05.2009 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

22 aprelya nashe nebo posetil meteornyi potok Lirid. Etot potok nablyudaetsya kazhdyi god, kogda Zemlya proletaet skvoz' pylevoi shleif ot hvosta komety Tetchera. Obychno nablyudatelyam Lirid ne udaetsya uvidet' nastoyashii meteornyi dozhd', oni videli tol'ko neskol'ko meteorov v chas, kotorye ustremlyayutsya iz radianta potoka, raspolagayushegosya vblizi yarkoi Vegi v sozvezdii Liry.