<br /> <p>A new timelapse captured by European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli from the International Space Station briefly shows a fireball falling to Earth.</p><p>The fireball can be seen as a bright flash in the upper right section of this video at about 7 seconds into the timelapse.</p><p>“Indeed it looks like a bright meteor, or fireball,” said Detlet Koschny, an expert at the European Space Agency’s Space Situational Awareness Programme, in an ESA blog post</a>. “It’s brighter than all the stars seen in the background; only at the very end of the video before sunrise do we see something of similar brightness – I guess Venus. So, if it is a meteor then it could be a decimeter-sized object… It might be a re-entering piece of space debris, but from looking at the entry angle (using the reflection on the clouds as reference) it’s coming in at too steep an angle.”</p><p>The footage was compiled from a series of photos that were originally taken by Nespoli on November 5. Nespoli has created timelapses of Earth from outer space in the past, including a view of the Persian Gulf</a>. Credit: European Space Agency via Storyful</p><br />
