What causes fireballs in the sky? - NASA
Fireballs were much in the news over the past month due to a big one that was seen in the Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana areas around local midnight on March 26 - 27, 2003. The fireball …
StarChild: Meteoroids - NASA
The brightest of the meteors are called fireballs. Sonic booms often follow the appearance of a fireball just as thunder often follows lightning. At certain times of the year, more meteors than …
The Peekskill Fireball - NASA
This photograph was taken by S. Eichmiller in Altoona, Pennsylvania just after the main meteoroid body broke up into fragments. The events surrounding the fall of the Peekskill meteorite on …
Archive of Questions
Welcome to the archive of Questions & Answers previously featured in the StarChild "Question of the Month" section.
How can the Sun "burn"? - NASA
The Sun does not "burn", like we think of logs in a fire or paper burning. The Sun glows because it is a very big ball of gas, and a process called nuclear fusion is taking place in its core. Nuclear …
NASA
VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Video footage of fireball streaking across the sky, breaking up into seperate smaller fireballs. Animation of path of fireball over a map of the Eastern United …