Sentences with phrase «meteors streaking»

Get away from city glow and you will see meteors streaking across the heavens all night long.

After 1 a.m. the radiant will have risen high enough to enable you to see meteors streaking downward from that spot as well.

Amateur videos of the meteor streaking across the sky — captured by numerous cellphones and cameras on car dashboards — were key.

As the meteors streak through the sky, they briefly ionize the atmosphere.

The Earth is constantly plowing into debris, collecting thousands of tons of space rock a year; so although you can not see them, meteor streaks happen during the day, too.

If you've ever seen a meteor streak across the night sky, you've seen the column of blasted air molecules it has left behind.

A single meteor streaks toward Earth in this image from the night of April 21, 2012.

Here's a quick summary of how it works: every round of the Infinity Gauntlet Limited Time Mashup mode begins like normal, until a meteor streaks down from the sky (not that meteor) with the Infinity Gauntlet inside.

But was does this mean in terms of the comet, as if you look at the picture clearly it is dominated by what looks an awful lot like a meteor streaking through the sky.

Small meteors streak down out of the sky and collide with the bottom, destroying something of their path — whether it is a part of the island or a player - made construction.

Not exact matches

In fact, the Leonids meteors are debris from Tempel - Tuttle comet that burn up in the Earth's atmosphere — creating colorful streaks in the sky.

The vaporizing debris streaks the nighttime with medium - fast Lyrid meteors.

In March, one team predicted a «meteor hurricane» on Mars, with billions of bits of dust streaking through the Red Planet's atmosphere each hour for about 5 hours.

Meteor (me - te - or) A small particle that can be seen only as a streak of light as it burns up on entry into Earth's atmosphere.

3 Technically, a meteor (from the Greek meteoron, meaning «phenomenon in the sky») is merely the streak of light we see trailing a meteoroid.

Burning red - hot from its passage through the atmosphere and trailing streaks of vapour, the meteor train moved south - east, passing just a few kilometres north of New York and then out over the Atlantic Ocean.

A new study shows that images of a meteor's streak through the atmosphere taken by Earth - gazing probes, including weather satellites, can pin down the object's orbit, enabling scientists to check and see whether another planet - threatening object is traveling in the same trajectory.

The Chelyabinsk meteor registered as a magnitude - 4.2 event when it streaked over Russia on Feb. 15, 2013, according to the USGS.

After the meteor was sighted streaking through the sky on 22 April, meteorite hunters found fragments of the rock, identified by the «fusion crust» that forms when it burns in the atmosphere.

In an opening shot that may as well be a direct quotation from John Carpenter's «The Thing,» a meteor originating from deep space streaks past the camera, striking a lighthouse along the United States coastline.

Streaking toward us is a Mount Everest - sized meteor.

I watched the sky until I saw a meteor's cold streak and then fell back to sleep.

In summer, meteor showers streak across the night sky while the moon shines a path to Molokai.

Beginning: goofing off on the spawn island; streaking like meteors toward the ground; a mad, bloody dash for a gun, any gun.

«A tranquil orange evening sky turned into a swirling cyclone of purple with long streaks of lighting, then it became a clear blue daytime dotted with fluffy white clouds before melting into a pitch - black night lit up by a meteor shower.»