{"id":65832,"date":"2025-10-08T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65832\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:12:10","slug":"meteor-streaks-through-britains-skies-tonight-leaving-lucky-gazers-in-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65832\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Meteor’ streaks through Britain’s skies tonight leaving lucky gazers in awe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brits have been left in awe after spotting what is believed to be a ‘meteor’ glowing through the night sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lucky stargazers in Northfields and Ealing, west London<\/a>,\u00a0have reported seeing a blue-ish green blob race through the city’s sky tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One onlooker described seeing the ‘streak’ of light dash through the clouds at around 8.10pm to 8.30pm, and initially believed it was fireworks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I’m used to seeing planes coming and going to Heathrow, and also helicopters coming and going; this was not that,’ they wrote on Reddit<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘My next thought was fireworks but I’m 90% sure it wasn’t that, and there was no explosion.<\/p>\n

‘For reference it was about the same size as the full-ish moon tonight, visible through the clouds, but as a much brighter blue green color and, again, moving quite fast.<\/p>\n

‘It was a very odd combination of speed, size and brightness and didn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen in the sky here before.’<\/p>\n

Others claimed to have seen the unusual sighting from Wimbledon and Hampstead Heath, with some even catching a glimpse as far afield as Brighton and Grantham.<\/p>\n

\"Lucky <\/p>\n

Lucky stargazers in Northfields and West Ealing, west London, and further afield, have reported seeing a blue-ish green blob race through the city’s sky tonight<\/p>\n

It has not yet been confirmed what the colourful ‘streak’ in tonight’s sky was, however, the Daily Mail has approached the Met Office for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It comes as earlier this week\u00a0Jessica Lee, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich also said skygazers could expect\u00a0the Draconids meteor shower tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, the meteor shower which is expected to peak Wednesday night may be difficult to see due to the moonlight, Ms Lee warned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘The Draconids meteor shower is named after the constellation of Draco the dragon,’ Ms Lee said.<\/p>\n

‘This is because, although meteors appear all over the sky, they all appear to emerge or radiate from a single point that lies within this constellation.<\/p>\n

‘The meteor shower is visible from the 6th until the 10th of October this year.<\/p>\n

‘The best time will be from around 8pm on the 8th of October.<\/p>\n

‘At this time, that radiant point within Draco will be in the north-west of the sky, slowly getting lower in the sky until sunrise.<\/p>\n

‘The moon will be almost full on this night however, so it could make the meteors tricky to see.’<\/p>\n

The Draconids are caused when debris from the comet 21P\/Giacobini-Zinner burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere, Ms Lee added.<\/p>\n

‘Most of this debris will burn up at a height of around 80km above the ground, so this is not a dangerous event,’ she said.<\/p>\n

‘For the best chances to spot them, find a dark area of clear sky and allow around 20 minutes to let your eyes adapt to the dark.<\/p>\n

‘It may also be advisable to lie down as you may be looking up for a long time.’<\/p>\n

In September, walkers were urged to keep an eye out for meteorite fragments scattered over Scotland after a shooting star was spotted<\/a> in the early hours of July 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The meteor is believed to have exploded over northern Scotland, with the ‘fall zone’ straddling Loch Treig in Lochaber, Highland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The aerial event was captured on some cameras and shared on social media, showing a big yellow spark soaring through the dark sky.<\/p>\n

Members of the public have since been tasked to look for the fragments, which should appear ‘black, glassy and shiny’.<\/p>\n

Meteorites \u2013 rocks from outer space and have fallen to the surface of a planet \u2013 may have delivered essential compounds facilitating the evolution of life as we know it.<\/p>\n

Professor Luke Daly, a planetary geoscientist and space rock hunter at the University of Glasgow, called them ‘time capsules of the early solar system’.<\/p>\n

‘They hold a wealth of information about how our solar system formed and developed,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘This is a very exciting opportunity to learn more about where this rock came from and where it has been and fill in a bit more of the jigsaw of our solar system’s history.’\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brits have been left in awe after spotting what is believed to be a ‘meteor’ glowing through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[539,61,60,99,82,1592,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-65832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-sciencetech","14":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}