Streaks of light seen over California likely space debris | ABC News

by 24USATVMarch 19, 2023, 5:50 p.m. 30
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Streaks of light seen in the sky over the Sacramento area on Friday night — shocking some St. Patrick’s Day revelers — were likely caused by burning space debris. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, says he’s “99.9% sure it was a Japanese communications antenna jettisoned from the International Space Station in 2020.” #space #spacedebris #astrophysics #internationalspacestation #keeplookingup SUBSCRIBE to ABC News on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2vZb6yP Latest updates: http://abcnews.go.com/ Watch FULL EPISODES on Hulu: http://abcn.ws/3bzvQQn

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