Stunning meteor turns the sky emerald green as it burns up over India Toby Meyjes for Metro.co.ukFri [View all]

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Toby Meyjes for Metro.co.uk Friday 27 Jan 2017 4:05 pm



A Brilliant Green Meteor Lights Up India’s ‘Sky Islands’
(Picture: Prasenjeet Yadav/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)


A photographer has captured the moment a meteor burnt up over the sky in India in a stunning picture that was captured completely by accident.

Prasenjeet Yadav had set up his camera to take timelapse pictures of India’s sky island – mountain peaks that rise above the skyline in the south of the country – when he captured this instead.

The image has been entered in National Geographic’s prestigious nature photographer of the year for 2016.

The perfect shot was one of 999 he took that night and he was so surprised that at first he thought it was a fluke – only for its validity to be later confirmed by several astronomers.


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