Social media has been filled with images of a huge shooting star across the night skies of eastern Australia Thursday evening.
However experts from Monash University confirm the stellar display around 9:45pm was nothing more than a two tonne piece of Russian rocket.
The rocket was launched on Tuesday to take a satellite into orbit, then became a left over piece of debris that decayed and fell into the earths atmosphere.
"It looks like it was the upper-stage of a Soyuz's rocket that was launched a few days ago," said Sydney observatory astronomer Melissa Hulbert.
"The tracking and impact prediction matched, time and location, what we saw."
The result, spectacular scenes in skies wide-spread across New South Wales down to Tasmania.
