Bright Meteor Lights Up Japan Sky Across Hundreds Of Miles, Leaves People In Awe
A fireball spotted falling from the night sky over parts of western and central Japan has lit up social media, with users sharing images of the unusually bright shooting star.??
According to a?report in NDTV, local media said on Sunday, that the fireball was believed to be a bolide - an extremely bright meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.??
"We believe the last burst of light was as bright as the full moon," Takeshi Inoue, director of the Akashi Municipal Planetarium, told Kyodo news agency.
A video tweeted by Public Broadcaster of Japan NHK World News shows the meteor lighting up the sky in Japan, including the cities of Kyoto, Yamaguchi, Shizuka and Okayama.
The fireball was visible for just a few seconds in the early hours of Sunday, but was caught on cameras owned by national broadcaster NHK - which generally capture earthquake activity rather than extraterrestrial light shows.??
Watch more as the meteor shoots through the sky and then disappears.
News agency Reuters also posted a dashcam video that captured the rare phenomenon.
?A similarly bright shooting star was spotted over Tokyo in July and later identified as a meteor, fragments of which were found in neighbouring Chiba prefecture.
