China's space debris burned over Spain

Slow-moving fireballs were spotted in the dawn sky of Spain. Many people posted their photos and videos of this phenomenon on social networks, suggesting that it could be a meteor shower. But experts have another explanation...

There is a huge amount of technical garbage in space today. Many debris and old satellites are simply "stuck" in orbit and they are not destined to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere

Jose Maria Madiedo from the Andalusian Institute of Astrophysics, Spain, said that the most likely cause of the mysterious phenomenon is space debris that burns up in the atmosphere. It could probably be the upper stage of the Chinese Long March-2F rocket, which was put into orbit as part of work on the new Chinese space station Tiangong. 

When the rocket stage hit back into the atmosphere, it broke up into many fragments, which heated up, creating a series of "fireballs" that were seen over Malaga, Seville, Huelva and Granada. Astronomers said the fireballs would also be visible much further north, in places like Toledo, Madrid and Valladolid. They added that the re-entry occurred over the Atlantic, off the coast of Morocco. About 100 km from the coast of Algeria and Murcia, the fireballs went out