Stargazing took an extraordinary turn for TikTok user stargazingwithmichael when he unknowingly captured a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event, the moment an asteroid collided with the moon.
Filming through his telescope in the early hours of May 2, 2025, at 2:32 a.m. CDT, Michael noticed a bright object streaking toward the lunar surface. As he kept his focus, the impact unfolded before his eyes. He could hardly believe his luck, calling the experience an unreal moment of astronomical history.
Michael told Newsflare: "I couldn't believe what I witnessed, then I was on cloud 9 to actually see an asteroid hit the moon, which happens almost every day from my research of how craters were formed over a billion years ago."
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