Before the Supermoon Showed Its Face It Flashed Us

Video captures meteor explosively striking the moon. See it now.

A space rock slammed into the moon just days ago, lighting up at the surface so brightly, it was briefly visible from Earth through telescopes. Daichi Fujii, curator at Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, recorded the impact. Fujii, who started looking for lunar impact flashes in 2011, keeps an eye fixed on the moon through several 8-inch aperture telescopes, mostly based in Hiratsuka, about midway between Tokyo and Mount Fuji. What makes this new s…

Before the Supermoon Showed Its Face It Flashed Us

The lunar surface isn’t pockmarked for no reason. Asteroids have peppered the moon since that sassy celestial body came into being some 4.5 billion years ago. And just last week, a museum curator and stargazer in Japan captured two of the latest lunar impacts and the flashes of light coming off the moon as yet more space rocks slammed into its barren face. Just as it was gearing up for its supermooning this week. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-fr…

Watch As Two Meteors Slam Into The Moon Just A Couple Of Days Apart

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Two Asteroids Strike the Moon, Producing Bright Flash Visible from Earth

What happened when two asteroids hit the Moon? In an extraordinary cosmic coincidence, two separate asteroids slammed into the Moon within just two days of each other, on October 30 and November 1, 2025. The rare double impact was caught on camera by Daichi Fujii, a Japanese astronomer and curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum. Using high-resolution telescopic footage, Fujii recorded two bright flashes that briefly illuminated the lunar surface. …