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This article originally appeared on Lost at E Minor.
Photographer Wes Eisenhauer has taken some pretty extraordinary footage of the night sky you’ll want to see. While filming a timelapse of the Milky Way Galaxy on October 16, Eisenhauer captured a fireball in the sky that seemed to spontaneously explode.
This incredible phenomenon is actually known as a bolide (meaning missile in Greek), which is basically a meteorite that explodes, leaving behind a red dust trail.
But if you watch closely, after this fireball explodes, it leaves a heavenly halo in its wake—it’s definitely something you need to see to believe.
(via Twisted Sifter)
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