Astronaut watches a meteor explode over Earth in a bright green fireball in stunning video from ISS | Space

A new video from an astronaut’s vantage point in space catures a bright green burst over Earth as a meteor exploded in the night sky.

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, commander of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, shared a new time-lapse of photos taken from the International Space Station as it passed over Cairo, Egypt. While aiming to photograph the Milky Way’s Core, Dominick ended up capturing a bright green fireball that exploded on Monday (Sept. 2) at 8:12 p.m. EDT (2012 GMT).

The outburst seen in the time-lapse was created by a meteor that entered Earth’s atmosphere and burned up.

Dominick shared the new view in a post on X (formally Twitter) on Sept. 3.

“I showed this to a couple of friends yesterday to see what they thought,” Dominick wrote in his post. “They both thought it was a meteor exploding in the atmosphere — a rather bright one called a bolide.”