Sentence examples for intense fireball from inspiring English sources

It was a speeding meteoroid from outer space that had crashed into the earth's atmosphere, where it exploded in an intense fireball.

One, in 1954, involved the detonation of a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini atoll, producing an intense fireball followed by a 20-mile-high mushroom cloud and widespread radioactive fallout.

Horatiu Nastase of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, thinks that the intense fireballs created in an atom-smashing experiment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York have remarkable similarities to the celestial phenomena.

At its most intense, the streaking fireball glowed 30 times brighter than the sun, leaving people on the ground below with skin and retinal burns.

The first and second orders of the spectrum may be present depending on the time and apparent magnitude of the meteor, but in some cases and due to the intense brightness of the fireball, the signal corresponding to the first order may become saturated during part of its atmospheric trajectory.

There was an intense transitory burst of fireball radiation lasting a few seconds.

The eruptions early Saturday morning sent residents of Lac-Megantic scrambling through the streets under the intense heat of towering fireballs and a red glow that illuminated the night sky.

The less intense version of the familiar Fireball cinnamon-flavored whisky serves as the base for a number of Potterific cocktails at Hog's Head pub.

However, a burst of intense neutron and gamma radiation came directly from the fireball.

The writers have focused not only on the firefighters' youth and vulnerability, but also their possible role in precipitating the explosions, which shot massive fireballs into the air and caused shock waves so intense that they shattered windows miles away. .

The ensuing explosion was so intense that many people felt a shock wave across the nearby Fidalgo Bay, and a huge fireball shot into the sky over the refinery, the Seattle Times reported at the time.