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Fires in the Sky: Aurorae and Meteor Photo by Ole Salomonsen
A bright fireball slashes through curtains of aurorae shimmering above the mountains of northern Norway, captured on camera by Ole C. Salomonsen in the early hours of September 20. Salomonsen, a...
View ArticleFriday Night Lights: Fireball Lights Up the U.S. East Coast
Last night a bright meteor was spotted up and down the northern mid-Atlantic United States from Maryland to Manhattan to Massachusetts. Streaking across the sky just before 8 p.m. EDT, the fireball...
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Remembering the Great Meteor Procession of 1860
Painting of The Meteor of 1860 by Hudson River School artist Frederic Church. (Credit: Frederic Church, courtesy of Judith Filenbaum Hernstadt). “Year of meteors! Brooding year!” -Walt Whitman July...
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Three-Meter Asteroid Hits Earth’s Atmosphere… Somewhere
Probability pattern of 2014 AA south and west of the Cape Verde islands. (Credit: Asteroid Initiatives, LLC) This was very likely the last trip around the Sun for the Earth-crossing asteroid 2014 AA,...
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Happy 1st Anniversary Chelyabinsk! The Fireball that Woke Up the World
Frame grab of the Chelyabinsk fireball recorded by a dashcam from Kamensk-Uralsky north of Chelyabinsk at dawn. No one knew the asteroid was headed our way because for the previous few weeks it was in...
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Eureka! Kola Fireball Meteorites Found in Russia
Amateur astronomer and physics teacher Asko Aikkila caught this image of the Kola fireball on videotape in Kuusamo, Finland on April 19, 2014. The picture has been processed to enhance the details....
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Flaming Space Junk Makes Jaws Drop in Australia
Frame grab from a Youtube video of the brilliant meteor that flared over Australia overnight. “It first looked like a plane with fire coming out of the tail.” – Aaron O. “I have never seen anything...
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Kick Back, Look Up, We’re In For a GREAT Perseid Meteor Shower
Multi-photo composite showing Perseid meteors shooting from their radiant point in the constellation Perseus. This year’s Perseid shower will peak on August 12-13 (Wednesday night-Thursday morning)...
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Super Bright Fireball Spotted Across U.S. Northeast
It came from outer space—literally! On Tuesday, May 17, 2016, the early morning sky briefly lit up with the brilliant flash of a fireball—that is, an extremely bright meteor—over much of eastern New...
View ArticleSatellites Watched a Huge Fireball Explode Above the Bering Sea Late Last Year
NASA's Terra satellites recently spotted a fiery meteorite in Earth's atmosphere, which exploded above the Bering Sea. The post Satellites Watched a Huge Fireball Explode Above the Bering Sea Late Last...
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