Photos: Perseid meteor shower
Scores of meteors blazed across the sky around the world from Saturday night through the early morning hours of Tuesday during the annual Perseid meteor shower.
Perseids Meteor Shower
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)
Spain Perseid Meteor Shower
In this long exposure photo, a streak appears in the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower above 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
In this long exposure photo, a streak appears in the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower above 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)
Perseid Meteor Shower
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)
Spain Perseid Meteor Shower
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
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)
Perseids Meteor Shower
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)
Meteor Shower
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)
Macedonia Perseid Meteor Shower
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)
Greece 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)