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Left by a Fireball   -  By: Babak A. Tafreshi

Not an airplane contrail, not a rocket launch, nor a normal cloud! It's left by a super meteor (a fireball), ionized gas in our atmosphere still glowing hot after the meteoroid object entered the atmosphere. The 4 images are each 6 minutes apart and the last shot on the right shows this "persistent meteor train" nearly half an hour after the meteor. See this view in a unique timelapse video. Read more about this on Phil Plait Bad Astronomy page. The scene is captured in October 2012 during the Orionid meteor shower, from a lake in northern Maine, USA.

 


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