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This is One of the Rarest Sightings in the Universe!
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1/14/2025
Photographer unexpectedly captures this rare sighting.
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Stargazers in Missouri were pleasantly surprised when a fireball meteor that
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zoomed through Earth's atmosphere left a vivid multicolored tail in the night
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sky, something the naked human eye usually cannot see. According to NASA,
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this quadrantids meteor was likely cast off by the asteroid 2003 EH1. Although
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meteors travel at extremely fast speeds, ranging from 25,000 miles per hour to
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160,000 miles per hour, making them visible only for a few seconds, this
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meteor colored the sky with a green, red, and blue tail visible to the naked eye
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for a few minutes after it had passed. As a meteor disintegrates, it releases
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ionized elements that cast vibrant colors in the sky. Nickel creates a
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glowing green, calcium radiates violet, and blue-green originates from magnesium.
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The color red is produced from the energized oxygen and nitrogen molecules
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in Earth's atmosphere. Astrophotographer Frank Casage, who captured the rare
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light display, won NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day Award. On that
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particular night, he was out with his friends shooting galaxies. His capture
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was a happy accident. When shooting images of galaxies, Casage normally zooms
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in as much as possible. That night, however, he forgot to zoom in.
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I didn't even realize I had captured it on camera until I was checking back
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through the pictures afterwards, and there it was. Casage said, if I had
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remembered to zoom in, I would not have captured the meteor, he added. Shooting
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stars are always a thrill to see, even more so when accompanied by a rainbow
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tail.
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