A meteor caught on camera from my backyard. This one is in the constellation of Lyra. Hence a Lyrid. An annual meteor shower which peaked in 2020 on April 21-22.
The trail goes from green to yellow to red probably a sign of dropping temperature as it burns up. The bright star Vega (alpha Lyrae) is in the background.
As the earth orbits the sun it runs into debris left behind by comets which (mostly) burn up in the atmosphere (and occasionally cause dinosaurs to go bye bye). This comet last visited in 1861 and is estimated to come back every 415 years.
