... Attributes of the object include that it has unusual colors, appears to be fading as months go by, and appears to be associated with a distant galaxy. ... The 1998 Leonids Meteor Shower was one of the most photographed meteor event in history. ... In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M83 . ... M83, visible in the inset image on the upper left, is one of the closest spiral galaxies to our own Milky Way Galaxy and from a distance of 15 million light-years, appears to be relatively normal. ...