If not for clouds, the half-tonne fireball would have been easily visible in the day, maybe about 100 times the brightness of a full moon
Hunt begins near Oslo for fragments after sightings of large space rock hurtling across night sky
An “unusually large” meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway.
Sometimes in landscape photography, nature smiles at your camera and surprises you with much more than you were hoping to capture. This photo is one example of that. While photographing an erupting volcano, the photographer saw a shooting star flash across the sky and steal the spotlight in the frame.
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks overnight tonight (May 4), with the best views arriving before dawn on Tuesday (May 5).
Doorbell cameras seem to be everywhere these days and this has resulted in all manner of unusual “blink and you’ll miss it” incidents being caught on film that would have otherwise gone unseen.
Source: Bended Reality Home security cameras captured the moment a meteor streaked across the night sky over Fullerton, California, in the early hours of November 2. Jessica Gilstrap tweeted this video recorded by her doorbell camera, writing: “WHOA! Jared and I were laying in bed and a bright light shone in our room, I thought
The Earth sits in a cosmic shooting gallery, constantly being bombarded by bits of space debris. Most of the time, the objects hitting the atmosphere are small, say the size of a grain of sand or even a small rock. They burn up in the atmosphere, leaving a streak as they go — a shooting star on which you might make a wish.
A giant bright light illuminated the sky over Edmonton Saturday night. The curiosity surrounding the fireball spread across the province.
Scientists fear a repeat of the 2013 strike in Russia and the devastating 1908 impact
