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That bright streak isn’t a flame tearing through space — it’s a grain of cosmic debris hitting Earth’s atmosphere at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour. The moment it meets air, friction and compression strip electrons from atoms, heating the trail until it glows blue, white, then orange as it slows and breaks apart. What makes this feel impossible is alignment. The Milky Way arcing overhead, the meteor entering at just the right angle, and the long exposure capturing both the motion of th

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