Persistence Pays Off: The Smoking Trail of a Shooting Star

On Oct. 16, 2014, a redditor by the handle -545- was camping at the Ashton-Wildwood County Park in Iowa. He spotted a clearing in the trees near his campsite which framed a part of the sky, so he set his camera up to take a series of 10-second exposures in the hopes of getting good footage for a time-lapse video. What he got was better than good: He caught a bright meteor that left a persistent train, a trail of glowing vapor that lasted for quite some time: That's pretty amazing timing and fram...