{"id":82398,"date":"2026-04-24T12:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82398"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:11:19","slug":"what-are-the-odds-superbright-comet-and-exploding-fireball-meteor-form-near-perfect-x-over-european-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/what-are-the-odds-superbright-comet-and-exploding-fireball-meteor-form-near-perfect-x-over-european-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What Are The Odds&#8217;: Superbright Comet And Exploding Fireball Meteor Form Near-Perfect X Over European Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Live Science:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/onHbFG4GaqB9mSTnQ2jcBb.jpg\" alt=\"A timelapse image showing a bright streak of light crossing in front of a comet&amp;#039;s long tail to form an X-like shape in the night sky. A medieval castle is illuminated in the foreground.\" width=\"318\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-ea8754cb-f4f4-43a6-9a07-431738f86fd4\">A dramatic photo shows the extremely unlikely moment when a blazing fireball meteor photobombed a contender for the &#8220;Great Comet of 2026&#8221; as it shone in the night sky over a 500-year-old European castle.<\/p>\n<p>Photographers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/#about-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/#about-1\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/#about-1\"><u>Petr Hor\u00e1lek<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and Josef Kujal snapped the cosmic coincidence on April 18 in the skies over the ruins of the 15th-century Kun\u011btick\u00e1 Hora Castle, in the central Czech Republic, at around 4:15 a.m. local time. They were initially attempting to capture the lengthy tail of Comet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/tools\/sbdb_lookup.html#\/?sstr=C%2F2025%20R3&amp;view=OPC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/tools\/sbdb_lookup.html#\/?sstr=C%2F2025%20R3&amp;view=OPC\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/tools\/sbdb_lookup.html#\/?sstr=C%2F2025%20R3&amp;view=OPC\"><u>C\/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS)<\/u><\/a>\u00a0when a bright streak of light flew across the sky in front of their target.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777032679\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"&#8216;What Are The Odds&#8217;: Superbright Comet And Exploding Fireball Meteor Form Near-Perfect X Over European Castle\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Live Science: A dramatic photo shows the extremely unlikely moment when a blazing fireball meteor photobombed a contender for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82399,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82398\/revisions\/82399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}