If you look up at the sky tonight, you probably saw some lights in the sky, so what is it? What could it be? Who knows, but it sure caused a lot of commotion online as people speculated what it could be. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, took to Twitter to explain what these objects might be. He said that the objects are a Japanese communications package called ICS-EF, which he said was launched to the International Space Station in 2009. McDowell explained that the object, classified as object 45265, orbits Earth as space junk for 3 years and then re-enters again. California at 9:30 p.m. If we find out what that is, we’ll be sure to update this page. Right now, if you take pictures or videos of those glowing lights, we’d love to see them, and callers from all over Northern California and the Bay Area have called our newsroom saying they’ve seen the lights. [email protected] for giving us permission to use it for on-air and online purposes.
If you look up at the sky tonight, you probably saw some lights in the sky.
What is this? What could it be? Who knows, but it sure has caused quite a stir on the internet, with people speculating as to what it could be.
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, took to Twitter to explain what these objects are. He said the objects are a Japanese communications package called ICS-EF, which he said launched to the International Space Station in 2009.
McDowell explained that the object, cataloged as Object 45265, orbited Earth as space junk for 3 years and then returned to California at 9:30 p.m.
If we find out what it is, we’ll be sure to update this page. Right now, if you’ve taken pictures or videos of those glowing lights, we’d love to see it.
Callers from all over Northern California and the Bay Area have reached out to our newsroom saying they’ve seen the lights.
Email these photos/videos to [email protected] to give us permission to use them for live and online broadcast purposes.
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