A Real Shooting Star Artist Concept
This artist concept illustrates a star flying through our galaxy at supersonic speeds, leaving a 13-light-year-long trail of glowing material in its wake. The star, named Mira pronounced my-rah after the latin word for wonderful.
- Date
- 2007-08-15
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- illustration (NASA artwork)
Public domainsafest
Reason: a NASA work: not copyrighted in the United States.
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Credit line
"A Real Shooting Star Artist Concept" (2007-08-15). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA09960Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 16029.
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