The seat of my envy of astronauts: the slow panning view of Eath.

Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010

What follows is an excerpt from the description of the video:

Notice how the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit, most discoveries are made in the region directly opposite the Sun. You'll also notice some clusters of discoveries on the line between Earth and Jupiter, these are the result of surveys looking for Jovian moons. Similar clusters of discoveries can be tied to the other outer planets, but those are not visible in this video.

As the video moves into the mid 1990's we see much higher discovery rates as automated sky scanning systems come online. Most of the surveys are imaging the sky directly opposite the sun and you'll see a region of high discovery rates aligned in this manner.

At the beginning of 2010 a new discovery pattern becomes evident, with discovery zones in a line perpendicular to the Sun-Earth vector. These new observations are the result of the WISE (Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer) which is a space mission that's tasked with imaging the entire sky in infrared wavelengths.

Check this out.

Call me weird, but I think I just saw something fairly badass.

At about the 0:33 mark in the video, you see something utterly obliterated in the bottom left quadrant of the video. It only lasts for a fraction of a second, but it looks like some kind of an impact out there. It might help to full-screen it.

Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo.

Source.

The image above seems to capture whatever it is only an instant prior to impact.

Time Lapse from Space - Earth