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ST. MARY\u2019S COUNTY, Md. – Did you see that in the sky? Several FOX 5 viewers across the Washington, D.C., region reported a bright object moving in the sky early Tuesday, leaving a glowing trail visible around 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The comet-like object was spotted over parts of Maryland, with many of the sightings coming from St. Mary\u2019s County and Prince George\u2019s County. Viewers shared photos and videos of the occurrence.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what we know about the object:<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service said in a post on X that the phenomenon was likely a “Space Jellyfish,” a term used for the illuminated trail that can form after a SpaceX rocket launch. The agency also shared an image showing how the glow appeared from South Carolina.<\/p>\n
RELATED: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral<\/a><\/p>\n SpaceX launched a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida early Tuesday. The Falcon 9 rocket is carrying Mini satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n FOX Orlando said the satellites were on board a Falcon 9 rocket, which blasted off around 5:33 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n Since 2019, SpaceX has launched thousands of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n The satellite network provides low-cost broadband internet to remote parts of the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Stay with FOX 5 for updates.<\/p>\n Bright glow over DC region Tuesday likely ‘Space Jellyfish’ from SpaceX launch, officials say <\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article comes from the\u00a0National Weather Service.<\/p>\n News<\/a>Washington, D.C.<\/a>Maryland<\/a>Virginia<\/a>Space<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. MARY\u2019S COUNTY, Md. – Did you see that in the sky? Several FOX 5 viewers across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[40426,5059,31163,3,79,193,25,14879],"class_list":{"0":"post-583672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-air-space","9":"tag-dc","10":"tag-md","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-va"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}