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More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a fireball streak across the sky, and NASA ...

The moon, the brightest and largest object in our night sky, isn’t technically a planet. That’s because it orbits around the Earth, not the sun.

There are a lot of things flying around the sky right now, but here are the five brightest nighttime objects that you can easily identify.

Venus' apparent magnitude in the sky is about -4 (it's extremely bright!)." A negative magnitude number means an object is brighter: the sun has a magnitude of -27, while the full moon is -13.

One of the brightest objects in the night sky isn’t a star or a planet — it’s a communications satellite. The BlueWalker 3 satellite, launched in September 2022, is now the eighth-brightest ...

At that time the planet in question is as close as it gets (just 0.4 au), so bigger, and because it’s 100% illuminated from our point of view, it’s as bright as it can be in our night sky.

The object was likely either a meteor or space junk, ... In this photo taken from video shows a bright object traveling in the sky in McDonough, Ga., on June 26, 2025. McDONOUGH, Ga.

McDONOUGH, Ga. — An object bright enough to be seen streaking across the midday sky fell across parts of the Southeast U.S. on Thursday. The object was likely either a meteor or space junk, with ...