Mysterious Explosion captured in the Milky Way

So...this strange collision/explosion happened. No idea what it is, but it's a really neat picture and a great catch. Any thoughts? Sorry if this is already up, I didn't see it anywhere.

www.sciencedump.com...

a reply to: jaffo

Okay that is really cool! I wonder how far away this was.

originally posted by: jaffo
So...this strange collision/explosion happened. No idea what it is, but it's a really neat picture and a great catch. Any thoughts? Sorry if this is already up, I didn't see it anywhere.

www.sciencedump.com...

Well the video is not on there anymore and every link I have looked up for it has been taken down as well......odd. Even the link from the original video maker on reddit and vimeo are gone. Whats up with that? From what I read on the comments it is believed it was a meteor exploding in the atmosphere.

a reply to: jaffo

So.. is this a meteor exploding within our atmosphere? Thats what it looks like??

a reply to: Vasa Croe

Its working for me

Found it....

a reply to: jaffo

Title is misleading. Thats in our atmosphere! and yes I know we're part of the Milky way, just not what I was expecting.

a reply to: Shepard64

looks like it hit the atmosphere...

Hard.

a reply to: Vasa Croe

Yeah that must be what it is and the video is still there. Gotta click on Wes dudes name at bottom of pictures.

a reply to: jaffo

whoa! that was cool OP. great catch.

a reply to: jaffo

Wow!!! Amazing video!! The halo must have been so big.

According to other sources, just like Vasa Croe said, it was a meteor exploding in the atmosphere as it was coming towards Earth.
www.news.com.au... 94

Pretty cool to watch on such a beautiful night.

I thought the title was implying a Quasar burst, and I got excited for a moment. lol

who would have thought the atmosphere was that hard that it's dispersal was as such, I can't imagine a stony/iron meteorite producing an effect like that , what was it made out of rice crispy's?

very odd looking


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Looked like a meteor hitting our atmosphere, you can see the trajectory of it coming in before it explodes.

originally posted by: MamaJ
a reply to: jaffo

So.. is this a meteor exploding within our atmosphere? Thats what it looks like??

That's what it is, it ain't in no Milky Way.
Probably sneaked off this link,

www.break.com...

and on youtube,

I believe that is what they call a Bolide. According to Collins English Dictionary:"a large exceptionally bright meteor that often explodes".

Has anyone seen the Doctor?

Nice catch op

a reply to: jaffo

Just to bring in something from left field.. Could it be that the meteor "hit" the moisture layer we see the clouds moving along and created a "cloud" which because if its fast trajectory created a ring shape?

Meteorites make these rings when they hit clouds, I forget the term but its pretty nifty lookin!

That is so totally cool!

I've seen some meteoric action in my time, but never one that dispersed in such a manner that was so easy to see... meaning I've never seen a ring of dispersing residue like that.

Pretty darned lucky catch... and beautiful.