Fireball meteor lights Japan's sky up
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A throbbing fireball lit up the night skies this week, conjuring images of an alien invasion. Experts, however, say the dramatic scene Tuesday evening over Kyushu and Shikoku in Western Japan was actually an unusually bright meteor.
People in Australia ’s Victoria reported a loud sonic boom that rattled houses as a meteor streaked past the night sky on Sunday. Footage of the space rock burning brightly was shared on social media by residents in Ballarat and Bendigo from 7:30pm local time.
Police in part of the Lowcountry shared shocking footage of a lightning strike on Monday. The Mt. Pleasant Police Department posted a video to its social media pages of a bolt striking and then producing a fireball beyond a group of trees.
Two truck drivers are fighting for life after a fuel tanker and a livestock carrier collided into each other and erupted into flames on the D’Aguilar Highway near the regional Queensland town of Blackbutt.
An intense flash of light that briefly turned night into day over Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima on Aug. 19 may have been caused by a bright meteor fireball, local weather officials say.
It’s not that the fireballs weren’t there; it’s just that the moon happens to be in a large and reflective phase lately. Moonlight tends to brighten the whole sky, washing out otherwise visible objects like planets, stars and meteors.
Scientists are studying what's left of the meteor that captivated the CSRA when it blazed across the daytime sky.
Picture this: a battalion of salty sea dogs squeezing into red, white, and blue Minis, armed with daisy roots and dry bags, storming across the Channel, charging through fine patisserie country, and scaling the Alps.
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