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Credit & Copyright: Ollie Taylor
Explanation:
The sky glows
with soft pinkish colors of fading twilight
in this serendipitous mountaintop vista.
Taken in subfreezing temperatures, the thoughtfully composed photo
shows snowy, rugged peaks seen from a mountain pass on November 14.
Below lies
the village of La Villa, Alta Badia in Italy's Dolomite
Alps.
Above the nestled village lights,
the constellation Ursa Major hangs over the northern horizon.
But most stunning is the intense fireball meteor.
It was captured during the camera's exposure by chance as it
flashed east to west across the
northern horizon, under Ursa Major's familiar Big Dipper asterism.
In fact, sightings
of this major fireball meteor were widely reported in European skies, the
most
reported fireball event ever for planet Earth's
American
Meteor Society and the
International
Meteor Organization.
The meteor's measured track over Germany is consistent with its origin near
the active radiant of
November's Taurid Meteor Shower.
Taurid meteors are associated with dust from
Encke's comet.
Watch:
Leonid Meteor Shower
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