Milky Meteor

Sometimes, you just need a little flash of inspiration to make your day go a bit better. Even if that flash is caused by a chunk of space rock the size of a grape slamming into Earth's atmosphere at 50,000 mph and converting its considerable kinetic energy into light and heat in mere seconds. Like, say, this. Astrophotographer Mark Gee was about 20 minutes outside of Wellington, New Zealand, capturing the Milky Way rising over the ocean when that bit of cosmic debris made its showy demise. Norma...