{"id":82060,"date":"2025-08-21T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82060\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:24:08","slug":"mystery-behind-the-giant-fireball-that-lit-up-the-sky-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82060\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Behind the Giant Fireball That Lit Up the Sky Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A throbbing fireball lit up the night skies this week, conjuring images of an alien invasion. Experts, however, say the dramatic scene Tuesday evening over Kyushu and Shikoku in Western Japan was actually an unusually bright meteor. It landed in the Pacific Ocean, head of Sendai Space Museum, Toshihisa Maeda said. \u201cPeople reported feeling the air vibrate. It was as bright as the moon,\u201d he said, per <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/aug\/20\/fireball-lights-up-sky-japan&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/aug\/20\/fireball-lights-up-sky-japan\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/aug\/20\/fireball-lights-up-sky-japan\">The Guardian<\/a>. Speaking to local outlet NKH, one witness to the phenomenon, said: \u201cA white light I had never seen before came down from above, and it became so bright that I could clearly see the shapes of the houses around us,\u201d before adding, \u201cIt seemed like daylight. For a moment, I didn\u2019t know what had happened and was very surprised.\u201d The fireball is reported to have been visible for hundreds of miles, experts said, caused by the dust in its trail burning up in the atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/aug\/20\/fireball-lights-up-sky-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A throbbing fireball lit up the night skies this week, conjuring images of an alien invasion. Experts, however,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-82060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}