This incredible 2-second exposure image was captured of an out-of-control Chinese satellite zooming through space on a collision course with Earth.

The gleaming Tiangong-1 reflected the sun as it orbited 137 miles above the planet on Wednesday at speeds of about 17,400 mph, according to Space.com.

The altitude is about half as high as the International Space Station, which flies at an average altitude of 248 miles above the globe.

Capturing the spacecraft “was an extremely difficult task” due to its speed, said Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy, which collaborated with the Tenagra Observatory in Arizona to use a robotically controlled telescope.

“Our telescope honestly did out-of-this world work to track such a target,” Masi told Space.com, referring to the Tenagra III “Pearl” telescope.

Tracking an object that fast “is something which very few observatories can do,” he added.

Tiangong-1, whose orbit is slowly decaying, is expected to re-enter the atmosphere sometime between Saturday and Sunday, according to the European Space Agency.

While most of the satellite will burn up in the atmosphere, some of its parts will likely survive the inferno and slam into Earth, experts predict.

ESA officials estimate that the odds of being stuck by a piece of Tiangong-1 are less than 1 in 300 trillion — and the wayward craft will most likely splash in an ocean.

But in the very unlikely event that pieces of Tiangong-1 hits the ground, China would be liable for any damage.

Holger Krag, head of the Space Debris Office at the ESA, based that assessment on the Liability Convention, which was reached by the UN General Assembly in 1971.

According to the law, when something falls out of space and lands on the ground, the country where the object originated is liable for damages.

“There’s no similar thing for property in space, though,” Krag told The Washington Post. Contact is “much more likely to occur there than an injury on the ground.”

Tiangong-1, which was launched in 2011, was originally intended to be deorbited in 2013 before its lifespan was extended, Newsweek reported.

But in 2016, the Chinese space agency announced it had lost control of the satellite. Despite its relatively short mission, the doomed station has sent back reams of valuable data.