The last photo is colorful but I can't see or distinguish clearly what color it is. But I have to admit it's really excellent.
I agree. The color of the meteor is quite unrealistic (as Chris also pointed out). Also, like Chris, I found it very strange that the background stars are virtually all colorless.
Let's compare the APOD with two pictures of Geminid meteors against a starry background:
A young friend of mine saw a very bright bolide over my hometown of Malmö some ten years ago. (I was so envious of him for having seen it!) The bolide was bright enough that it made national news. But when my friend described it, this is what he said about it:
"It was green!"
So, yes. I believe that bright meteors are often green. But they are typically blue-green, not a "pure" shade of green, and their color is not saturated. In other words, they are perhaps this color, ███, not this color, ███.
Ann
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