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Space Visitor   -  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 image shows the smoke like "persistent meteor train" 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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