There are many different color emitting bodies in Xinjiang through the spectacle of the night sky, experts: It is likely to be a fire star

Jimu News reporter Yang Jinying

Late in the evening of July 16th, Turpan, Korla, and other places in Xinjiang took a number of different colors of luminous bodies. The luminous body was yellow and red, and the scene was quite beautiful.

According to the online video, the dark night sky is slippery, large and small, exuding multi -color light such as yellow, white, red, and blue, and those who have a strong light illuminate a night sky. When the luminous body fell in the night sky, it was accompanied by the burst of lies.

Turpan, Korla, Ruoqiang and other places in Xinjiang have witnessed this spectacle. Many witnesses said that the scene appeared at about 11:30 pm on the 16th. Some netizens said, "Like fireworks, so beautiful", "I also see it, wishing Guotai Min'an"; some netizens suspected that this was the fall of the space wreckage.

On July 17, the staff of the Turpan Emergency Administration told Jimu Journalists that they had noticed this situation.

So what may be these mysterious emitting bodies? Professor Li Liang, an astronomical popular science expert of Beijing Astronomy Museum, said in an interview with Extreme News that the night sky wonders appearing in Xinjiang are relatively rare. "From the video point of view, this phenomenon is very similar to the relatively large meteorite and the earth's atmosphere. In the process of falling into the earth, the friction produces heat, and then burns and glow. "

Li Liang introduced that if the phenomenon is indeed a fire meteor, so many fire meteors appear at once, it is really rare. It may be that the earth has passed a meteor group. There are many meteorite stones in the meteor group being gravitated by the earth's gravity Attract this phenomenon. At the same time, the fire star is large and small, and the ingredients are different, so different colors will be produced.

But at the same time, the possibility of artificial celestial wreckage falls. Li Liang said that when the artificial celestial body fell, severe friction and burning with the earth's atmosphere would also cause this phenomenon. "There are a large number of luminous bodies in the video, so it is not ruled out that it is an artificial celestial body. This needs to query near the fall, or whether there is a spacecraft in the recent period of time to further confirm It is possible that he is more inclined to fall.

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