Meteor
Meteor – A pea-sized rocky mass from space that heats due to friction as it falls through a planet’s atmosphere, leaving behind an incandescent trail along its path as it vaporizes
A meteor shoots across the sky from the center of the image towards the upper right. The arrow points to the rocky mass that is at the head of the incandescent trail.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160813.html
Editor: Patrick Joiner, UCF Interdisciplinary Studies, Class of
2018
Senior Editor: M.M. Montgomery, Ph.D, UCF Physics