Photos: 2013 Perseid meteor shower lights up the night sky
August 13, 2013
Meteors streak above the Wyoming countryside early Tuesday morning north of Cheyenne in this time-elapsed photo. The past couple nights were the peak of the Perseids Meteor Shower, which run from mid-July through mid-August. The shower, which gets its name from the constellation, Persus, are the remants from the comet Swift-Tuttle, which last past through in 1992 and won't pass by again until the year 2125. (AP Photo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Blaine McCartney) ( APTOPIX Perseids Meteor Showser )
A multiple exposure picture taken in the early hours of August 11, 2013 shows a Perseids meteor shower in the sky, near the municipality of La Hiruela, on the mountains of the Sierra Norte de Madrid. DANI POZO/AFP/Getty Images ( 522014077 )
A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower behind a roadside silhouette of a Spanish fighting bull, conceived decades ago in Spain as highway billboards, in Villarejo de Salvanes, central Spain in the early hours of Monday Aug. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul White) ( Spain Perseid Meteor Shower )
A long exposure image showing a Perseids meteor (L) streaking across the night sky over St. Ioan medieval church near the village of Potsurnentsi, late on August 12, 2013. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year in August when the Earth passes through the debris and dust of the Swift-Tuttle comet. DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images ( 522059074 )
This long-exposure photograph taken on August 12, 2013 shows people watching for the Perseid meteor shower in the night sky near Yangon. The meteor shower occurs every year in August when the Earth passes through the debris and dust of the Swift-Tuttle comet. Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images ( 522062083 )
A shooting star can be seen in the night sky over Sieversdorf, eastern Germany, on August 11, 2013. The peak of the Perseid meteor shower is expected for the night to Tuesday, August 13, 2013. PATRICK PLEUL/AFP/Getty Images ( 522046024 )
A meteor is seen over a railroad crossing at Ditto Marina Parkway, early Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, in Huntsville, Ala. (AP Photo/AL.com, Eric Schultz) ( APTOPIX Meteor Shower )
HOLMES CHAPEL, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 13: A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky over the Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank on August 13, 2013 in Holmes Chapel, United Kingdom.The annual display, known as the Perseid shower because the meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern sky, is a result of Earth's orbit passing through debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) ( 176434886 )
CATHEDRAL GORGE STATE PARK, NV - AUGUST 12: A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky on August 12, 2013 in Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada. The annual display, known as the Perseid shower because the meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern sky, is a result of Earth's orbit passing through debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) ( 176414211 )
A meteor shines, top left, while entering the earth's atmosphere during the Perseid Meteor Shower observed early Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, in this long exposure picture taken from village of Kozle, just southeast of Skopje, Macedonia. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski) ( Macedonia Perseid Meteor Shower )
A multiple exposure picture taken in the early hours of August 11, 2013 shows a Perseids meteor shower in the sky, near the municipality of La Hiruela, on the mountains of the Sierra Norte de Madrid. DANI POZO/AFP/Getty Images ( 522014074 )
A meteor streaks past the faint band of the Milky Way galaxy above the Wyoming countryside early Tuesday morning, Aug. 13, 2013, north of Cheyenne, Wyo. The past couple nights were the peak of the Perseids Meteor Shower, which run from mid-July through mid-August. The shower, which gets its name from the constellation, Persus, are the remants from the comet Swift-Tuttle, which last past through in 1992 and won't pass by again until the year 2125. (AP Photo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Blaine McCartney) ( Perseids Meteor Shower )
In this photo taken with long shutter speed, a meteor sparks, lower right, while entering the earth's atmosphere behind an olive tree during the Perseids Meteor Shower, in Fanos village, central Greece, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013. The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids shower is visible from mid- July each year, with the peak in activity being between Aug. 9 and 14 depending on the particular location of the stream.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) ( Greece Meteor Shower )
Stars seen as streaks from a long camera exposure are seen behind and above a roadside silhouette of a Spanish fighting bull, conceived decades ago as highway billboards, in Villarejo de Salvanes, central Spain, 2013. A sign on the bull, put up by protesters, reads "State schools" as a reference for a demand for the state funded schools to continue. (AP Photo/Paul White) ( Spain Perseid Meteor Shower )
CATHEDRAL GORGE STATE PARK, NV - AUGUST 11: A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky on August 11, 2013 in Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada. The annual display, known as the Perseid shower because the meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern sky, is a result of Earth's orbit passing through debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) ( 176413445 )
HOLMES CHAPEL, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 13: A Perseid meteor (R) streaks across the sky past the light trail of an aircraft over the Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank on August 13, 2013 in Holmes Chapel, United Kingdom.The annual display, known as the Perseid shower because the meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern sky, is a result of Earth's orbit passing through debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) ( 176434882 )
A meteor streaks through the early morning skies above an old windmill Monday, August 12, 2013, near Brookston, Ind. during the annual Perseid meteor shower (AP Photo/Journal & Courier, Michael Heinz) ( Meteor Shower )
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