It’s a meteor ... no, it’s space junk

PETALING JAYA: Sarawakians were treated to an unusual display of light streaks passing through their sky during the fiery re-entry of a massive chunk of space junk from the Chinese Long March rocket that crashed to Earth early yesterday.

According to the US space agency Nasa, the debris from the 22.5-tonne core stage of the Long March 5B rocket was reported to have begun re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean at approximately 12.45am yesterday.