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Astronaut watches a meteor explode over Earth in a bright green fireball in stunning video from ISS

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NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shared a new time-lapse of photos taken from the International Space Station as it passed over Cairo , Egypt .

Dominick captured a bright green fireball that exploded on Monday ( Sept. 2 ) at 8:12 p.m. EDT ( 2012 GMT ) The outburst was created by a meteor that entered Earth 's atmosphere and burned up.

The timelapse includes 20 individual images taken from inside of the space station's Cupola module.

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