A dramatic portrait-oriented movie poster with the title text 'What was the Tunguska Event?' at the top, featuring a vivid Siberian forest under a brilliant, fiery sky where a meteor airburst flattens trees, evoking mystery and awe.

On the morning of June 30, 1908, an enormous explosion lit up eastern Siberia as a mysterious cosmic body disrupted a vast taiga.

Tunguska event. Meteor air burst over siberian forest. 2d illustration.

Photos of four locations taken during the night of the Tunguska Event on 30 June 1908: (a) Armagh, (b) Greenwich, (c) Tambov and (d) The Irkutsk observatory.

Eyewitnesses described a dazzling fireball and powerful shock waves that flattened millions of trees over an area of roughly 2,150 square kilometers.

Tunguska event - Wikipedia

A mysterious blast in 1908, thought to have been caused by a meteor, flattened a Siberian taiga forest. This photo was taken in 1938, during an expedition by Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, investigating the event.

Modern research interprets the event as an atmospheric airburst caused by a stony asteroid exploding high above the Earth, which left no crater behind.

Image from the LICIACube CubeSat of the ejecta caused by the impact of the DART impactor on Dimorphos, with Didymos in the foreground.

This extraordinary event continues to remind us of the unpredictable power of near-Earth objects and inspires efforts to monitor potential cosmic impacts.

What was the Tunguska Event?

On the morning of June 30, 1908, an enormous explosion lit up eastern Siberia as a mysterious cosmic body disrupted a vast taiga.
Eyewitnesses described a dazzling fireball and powerful shock waves that flattened millions of trees over an area of roughly 2,150 square kilometers.
Modern research interprets the event as an atmospheric airburst caused by a stony asteroid exploding high above the Earth, which left no crater behind.
This extraordinary event continues to remind us of the unpredictable power of near-Earth objects and inspires efforts to monitor potential cosmic impacts.

What was the Tunguska Event?

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