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An airport camera perfectly captured a meteor exploding on Saturday ngiht, with the brilliant light illuminating the night sky for miles around.

Multiple cameras picked up a massive flash of light over Ukraine last night with no clear explanation as to what it was.

A Japanese astronomer captured the moment a meteorite crashed into the Moon creating a flash of light and a new crater.

A doorbell camera captured the moment a huge meteor hurtled over Alaska, lighting up the night sky.

After NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into Dimorphos last week, the asteroid now has a 6,000 mile-long tail made of dust and debris.

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments was struck by a micrometeoroid and while it has been damaged, NASA says it's not cause for alarm and the telescope is still on schedule.

The Subaru-Asahi Camera which is installed at the Subaru Telescope dome in Maunakea, Hawai'i captured a rare "meteor cluster" event, an unusual phenomenon where a group of meteors appeared from the same direction in the sky for 10 seconds.

NASA has released photos it captured of a rare ultra-powerful meteor explosion that occurred above the Bering Sea back on December 18th, 2018. The "fireball" unleashed over 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb that was dropped over Hiroshima in World War II.

Montreal-based photographer François Guinaudeau went out a couple of nights ago to shoot Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner during the Perseid meteor shower. As he was capturing photos of the comet for stacking, a shooting star flew into the frame and exploded near the comet. Above is one of the photos that resulted.

On October 13, 2014, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) was hit by a tiny meteoroid which was traveling faster than a speeding bullet. The impact resulted in a ‘wild and jittery’ image of the moon’s surface.

What's the biggest surprise you've gotten while you were out shooting? For astrophotographer Ian Norman, Wednesday night's massive 'fireball' that streaked across the sky while he was out taking Milky Way pictures tops the list. (Warning: Strong language.)

Photographer Nao Tharp of Los Angeles, California, just released this short video that shows something neat he captured on a freezing cold winter night back on December 12th, 2015. While shooting a time-lapse of the Geminid meteor shower at Red Rock Canyon State Park in California's Mojave desert, his camera caught a bright meteor explosion and a resulting orange glowing plume that lingered for about 40 minutes.

The video above shows the same explosion at different magnifications and playback speeds.

With a little bit of patience and a whole lot of luck, I was able to capture this photograph of myself perched on a rock above the Pacific Ocean. When I set out to photograph the annual famed Perseids Meteor Shower last week, I had a specific goal of capturing a "selfie" photograph with myself in frame and hopefully a meteor streaking overhead (along with a variety of other images throughout the evening). My hope turned into reality in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

A couple of nights ago, Hawick, UK-based photographer Sam Cornwell spent some time in the great outdoors taking pictures of the April Lyrids meteor shower that happens from April 16 to April 26 of each year. Just as he was about to call it quits and return home without a keeper, Cornwell captured the above photo of a huge "fireball" streaking across the night sky.

In mid-October, a meteor decided to explode in spectacular fashion in the night sky. Known as a 'bolide fireball,' a photographer named Ben Lewis was lucky enough to capture it and his video went viral the day after the event.

But he wasn't the only one with camera pointed towards sky, and for our money, we think photographer Wes Eisenhauer was fortunate enough to capture it better.

Astronomers can wait decades to see or capture what Ben Lewis photographed by accident while shooting a time-lapse Ashton-Wildwood County Park, Iowa very early this morning. Called a 'bolide fireball,' what you see in the short time-lapse above is an exceptionally bright meteorite that explodes in a bright flash at its end, leaving behind this strange bright puff of red smoke.

For the first time ever, a meteor has been captured on camera falling through the sky after it has finished burning. And that's not all: the baseball-sized space rock nearly slammed into the man behind the camera.

I’ve been shooting photos for 20 years. I’ve made my living in the profession for the last 15. I can count on one hand the number of times that everything lined up perfectly and a truly rare image was created.

It's a day of awesome astronomical phenomenon on PetaPixel. We started off the day by sharing a stunning time-lapse by photographer Maciej Winiarczyk in which he captured noctilucent clouds and the aurora borealis at the same time.

And now, as you get ready to hit the home stretch and finish Monday on a good note, we have yet another amazing (and accidental) time-lapse capture: While photographing the 2013 Perseids Meteor Shower last week, photographer and designer Michael K. Chung was fortunate enough to capture an actual meteor explosion.

Photographer Shannon Bileski of Signature Exposures captured this beautiful photograph last Friday at Patricia Beach in Canada. It shows a bright meteor streaking through a sky filled with the green glow of the aurora borealis.

On Friday, February 15th, 2013, near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 did a flyby of our planet -- the closest approach ever of an object of its size (30 meters in diameter). Photographer Colin Legg of Western Australia decided to capture the close pass in a time-lapse video, and set up his cameras after midnight around 220 miles east of Perth.

He ended up capturing the amazing video above, while captures a shooting star burning a trail across the sky while DA14 slowly travels through the shot. The video also shows how much random stuff in the sky you can see if you have eyes/cameras sensitive enough to see it.