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NASA Was Impressed by the Image of an Eighteen-Year-Old Czech. He Composed the Perseids From Thousands of Photos over Five Nights

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The image was captured on three cameras, and the final image was selected from 20,000 photographs. The photograph by eighteen-year-old Jakub Kuřák from northern Bohemia, which shows the maximum of the Perseid meteor shower in the Jizera Mountains, has now been awarded the prestigious photo of the day by the American NASA. "I didn't expect it," says Kuřák in an interview for iDNES.cz. He describes how complicated the image was to create and why i…
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The image was captured on three cameras, and the final image was selected from 20,000 photographs. The photograph by eighteen-year-old Jakub Kuřák from northern Bohemia, which shows the maximum of the Perseid meteor shower in the Jizera Mountains, has now been awarded the prestigious photo of the day by the American NASA. "I didn't expect it," says Kuřák in an interview for iDNES.cz. He describes how complicated the image was to create and why i…

·Čestlice, Czechia
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iDNES.cz broke the news in Čestlice, Czechia on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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