--- title: Watch This Video of a Meteorite Exploding description: This is definitely something you need to see to believe canonical: https://time.com/3556628/video-meteorite-exploding/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-04T18:49:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:11.039Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Watch This Video of a Meteorite Exploding og:description: This is definitely something you need to see to believe og:url: https://time.com/3556628/video-meteorite-exploding/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Video of a Meteorite Exploding twitter:description: This is definitely something you need to see to believe twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Video of a Meteorite Exploding by [Rachel Oakley / Lost at E Minor](https://time.com/author/lost-at-e-minor-zolton-zavos/) ## Rachel Oakley / Lost at E Minor Nov 4, 2014 6:49 PM UTC by [Rachel Oakley / Lost at E Minor](https://time.com/author/lost-at-e-minor-zolton-zavos/) ## Rachel Oakley / Lost at E Minor Nov 4, 2014 6:49 PM UTC  _This_ [_article_](http://www.lostateminor.com/2014/11/05/watch-meteorite-captured-video-exploding/) _originally appeared on_ [_Lost at E Minor_](http://www.lostateminor.com/)_._ Photographer [Wes Eisenhauer](http://weseisenhauerphotography.com/) has taken some pretty extraordinary footage of the night sky you’ll want to see. While filming a timelapse of the Milky Way Galaxy on October 16, Eisenhauer captured a fireball in the sky that seemed to spontaneously explode. This incredible phenomenon is actually known as a [bolide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolide) (meaning _missile_ in Greek), which is basically a [meteorite](http://bolid.es/) that explodes, leaving behind a red dust trail. But if you watch closely, after this fireball explodes, it leaves a heavenly halo in its wake—it’s definitely something you need to see to believe. (via [Twisted Sifter](http://twistedsifter.com/videos/photographer-captures-giant-fireball-bolide/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3556628/video-meteorite-exploding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3556628/video-meteorite-exploding/"},"headline":"Watch This Video of a Meteorite Exploding","datePublished":"2014-11-04T18:49:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:11.039Z","description":"This is definitely something you need to see to believe","url":"https://time.com/3556628/video-meteorite-exploding/","keywords":["Science topic","video"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel Oakley / Lost at E Minor"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3556628/video-meteorite-exploding/","name":"Watch This Video of a Meteorite Exploding"}}]}] ```