Amateur Astrophotographer Captures Rare Jupiter Explosion
An amateur astrophotographer captured a rare fireball hitting Jupiter marking one of the brightest flashes ever recorded on the planet.
Giant Green Meteor Lights up the Night Sky in Turkey
A massive, bright green fireball was caught on camera as it streaked across the night sky in Turkey.
Photographer Captures Shooting Star and the Milky Way Galaxy While On Top of a Mountain
A photographer captured a shooting star, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Alps during the Perseids meteor shower -- a celestial event that is underway again in 2023.
Airport Camera Captures Huge Meteor Explosion
An airport camera perfectly captured a meteor exploding on Saturday ngiht, with the brilliant light illuminating the night sky for miles around.
Mystery as Enormous Bright Light Dazzles Cameras in Ukraine
Multiple cameras picked up a massive flash of light over Ukraine last night with no clear explanation as to what it was.
Astronomer Captures Meteorite Crashing into the Moon
A Japanese astronomer captured the moment a meteorite crashed into the Moon creating a flash of light and a new crater.
Doorbell Camera Captures Giant Meteor Streaking Across Alaskan Sky
A doorbell camera captured the moment a huge meteor hurtled over Alaska, lighting up the night sky.
Image of 6,000 Mile Long Asteroid Tail Created by NASA’s Deliberate Crash
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.
Webb Telescope Struck by Meteorite: Here’s Why NASA Isn’t Worried
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.
Lucky Photographer Catches Shooting Star in Family Photo
A British photographer has captured a once-in-a-lifetime picture after a shooting star whizzed across the sky at the exact moment he captured a family photo.
Rare and Dazzling ‘Meteor Cluster’ Caught on Camera
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.
Photographer Captures Shooting Star Falling ‘Into’ Volcano
An Indonesian photographer has captured a remarkable photo of a meteor falling "into" a volcano, and the resulting shot looks like there's a green beam of light shooting up from the crater.
This Photographer Accidentally Shot a Meteor While Capturing a Volcano
Sometimes in landscape photography, nature smiles at your camera and surprises you with much more than you were hoping to capture. This photo is one example of that. While photographing an erupting volcano, the photographer saw a shooting star flash across the sky and steal the spotlight in the frame.
This Once-in-a-Lifetime Meteor Photo Was Captured by Accident
There are some types of photography that can be planned down to the tiniest detail. Capturing shooting stars? Not so much. This picture-perfect photo of a meteor is one of photographer Prasenjeet Yadav's most popular shots, but it's also perhaps his luckiest: it was captured accidentally while he was asleep.
Photographer Captures Rare Meteor Explosion While He Slept
Time-lapse photographer Matthew Vandeputte recently captured something truly awesome. While he was sleeping soundly in a cabin somewhere in Utah, the camera he set up earlier that evening captured the moment when a meteor entered the atmosphere and exploded, leaving behind a green trail of dust and ionized gas.
Yes, The Huawei P30 Pro Can Shoot the Milky Way (and Even Meteors)
My Huawei P30 Pro arrived at 4:30 pm on April 6th, and I knew the night sky in Mersing would be amazing for me to try out this low-light beast. I had read a lot of good reviews on P30 Pro, but I was still skeptical, so I booked a room at my regular resort on the same day and drove 3 hours to get there.
NASA Captured a Meteor Exploding with the Energy of 10 Atomic Bombs
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.
This Photo Shows the Rainbow Colors of a Geminid Meteor
During the Geminid meteor shower in December 2018, Colorado-based photographer Dean Rowe managed to capture this massive meteor streaking across the sky with a length 60 times the angular diameter of the Moon.
Photographer Captures Shooting Star Exploding in Front of a Comet
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.
NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Camera Was Hit By a Meteoroid and Survived
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.
Photographer Snaps Streaking Meteor Above an Erupting Volcano
While shooting recently in Kamchatka, Russia, Dutch photographer Tomas van der Weijden captured this remarkable photo of an erupting volcano and a streaking meteor being reflected in a lake.
This Photo Captures Lava, Milky Way, Meteor, and Moon in a Single Shot
Adventure photographer Mike Mezeul II captured something truly extraordinary a couple of weeks ago. While hiking around Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii one night in September, he managed to capture the moon, the milky way, a meteor, and flowing lava in a single frame.
Astrophotographer Surprised by Huge ‘Fireball’ While Shooting Milky Way
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.)
This Time-Lapse Caught a Meteor Explosion and a 40-Minute Orange Plume
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.
How to Take a Self-Portrait with a Shooting Star
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.
Photographer Snaps Meteor Leaving a ‘Z’ in the Sky
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.
Milky Way Time-Lapse Captures Rare Glimpse of a Meteor Exploding in the Atmosphere
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.
Photographer Accidentally Captures a Rare Fireball Explosion in His Night Sky Time-Lapse
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.
Skydiver’s Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor Almost Hitting Him
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.
How an Exploding Meteor Turned a Great Shot Into a Once-in-a-Lifetime Photograph
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.