Last night, a meteor lit up South East Queensland skies, which coincided with the Lyrid Shower.

A Lyrid Shower is a celestial event that occurs every April.

Astrophysicist and Cosmologist, Brad Tucker, told Dean Miller on 4BC Afternoons, “Since this one [meteor] lasted for quite a few seconds, [it] was very bright and very noticeable.”

“It was in kind of that, between a tennis ball and a basketball in terms of kind of scale that you’re talking about in terms of size.”

“The meteor that people saw last night was actually unrelated to the meteor shower. So it’s a bit weird because the Lyrids don’t start until about midnight. So this just happened to be a random lucky occurrence,” Mr Tucker continued.

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