Is it a bird? Is it a meteor? No, it's SpaceX space junk over the Pacific Northwest!

"Shooting stars? Debris? Anyone else see this in Seattle just now?" Stunned onlookers filmed the skies over Portland and Seattle in awe on Thursday, as a strange stream of bright lights filled the night sky.  But rather than a rogue meteor or firework-spewing plane, state weather services and a Harvard astronomer concluded that the lights appear to be space debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, resulting from a Starlink satellite launch in March.  The National Weather Service's bureau in Portland said it had been getting "a number of calls" about the event. Although the account wrote it was "waiting for more information from official sources," it pointed to a Tweet by astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who is affiliated with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Read more...More about Spacex, Science, and Space