The past week has been full of meteor showers across the world, "a night time light show to remember".
Glimpses of beautiful meteor falls blooming across the skies has been observed in many countries worldwide and this weekend the Victorians have been treated to a rare spectacle as a meteor light up the night sky.
According to BBC, a bright meteor was seen and captured on camera likely a bolide lighting up the night sky in parts of Australia.
Residents from Melbourne, reported that they have seen a large meteor streaking across the night sky on Sunday, August 10, 2025.
Blazing meteoroid thrilled residents in Victoria as onlookers were stunned by a bright object falling from the sky, followed by a loud bang as soon as it crashed into the earth.
Few people also felt a loud sonic boom accompanying the meteor passage.
The Guardian, reports that dozens of video clips have been shared on Australian Meteor Reports group on social media by the eye witnesses of the thrilling night event.
One of the residents of Fryerstown, Saskia Reus-Smit, posted to the group:
“I had seen the meteor pass directly over my head, very low, seemed lower than a plane- close enough to see burning definition, like a volcanic rock burning orange, shades of black rock formation shadows clearly visible”.
Another witness Terrance Dale from Elida said, “My house and the earth shook visibly and we experienced a massive boom, sounded more like impact than sonic boom but could have been either”.
Dale said that he was left awestruck from the view.
“Low on the horizon and it was blue and red in color and was extremely long in shape, it dropped from my view due to mountain range near where we live,” Dale wrote.
Astrophysicist and astronomer Prof Jonti Horner, from the University of Southern Queensland, confirmed it was a meteor that had lit up the sky.
“It was definitely a meteor- Because of how bright it was, we describe it as a ‘fireball’ – which just means a meteor that was brighter in the sky than the planet Venus appears,” Horner said.
“From how bright it was and the fact there was a widely heard sonic boom-rumble a few minutes after it appeared, it seems likely that fragments could have made it to the ground.”
Meteoroids are space rocks that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids, often seen as the bright fireball or flash of light, streaking through the sky.
According to NASA, when Meteoroid enters into the earth’s atmosphere or from another planet at high speed and burn up, they are called "meteor".
Furthermore, when we observe multiple meteoroids at once it is considered as a "meteor shower".
Additionally, when a meteoroid survives its trip through the atmosphere and it hits the earth ground and dispersed into small pieces called as "Meteorites".
Most meteorite or meteoroids come from asteroids, Mars or Moon. Meteorites typically range between the size of a pebble or fist.
According to the American Meteor Society AMS, the next meteor shower name ‘Perseids’, currently active from July 17, 2025 can be seen till august 23,2025.
These Perseids are expected to peak on Wednesday august 13,2025 at night time when the moon would be 84% full.
