What a falling star looks like... from space!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Aug 15, 2011 3:30 PMNov 20, 2019 12:37 AM

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Astronaut Ron Garan, currently on board the International Space Station, was taking pictures of our home world out the window -- and how cool is it to be able to say that? -- when he took this amazing picture of a meteor burning up in our atmosphere:

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