🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured the action as a shower of bright fireball meteors rained down.
Composite image taken by astronaut Christina Koch aboard the International Space Station on January 4, 2020. The first thing that caught my eye when I saw this lovely image shot from the International Space Station was the green and yellow curtains of shimmering light — the aurora borealis over northern Canada.
Of course, I also couldn’t miss that very bright splotch of white light — the city lights of Edmonton. Only when I looked more closely did I see bright linear streaks against the dark background toward the upper left. These are the traces left by meteors burning up as they race through the atmosphere.
I’ve looked up into the night sky as meteors punctuated the dark with brief streaks of light. But I cannot recall ever seeing this view: looking
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