It was beautiful and a little scarey, at 6:30 this morning, but the tumbling body of a Soyuz U rocket captured on video here presented no danger as it burned up quickly, according to Space Weather. Witnesses described it as "brilliant, slow, twinkling, sparkly and full of rainbow colors." It was part of the vehicle that launched a French orbital telescope on Dec. 27, visualized here.
UPDATE It didn’t all burn up, but so far no reports of damage or injury.
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