Stunning display of the annual Perseids meteor shower through the ages — in photos

[caption id=“attachment_7150041” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Astronaut Ron Garan tweeted this image from the International Space Station on August 2011 during the Perseid Meteor Shower. Image credit: NASA[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_7150681” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Astronaut Scott Kelly posted this photo of the Perseid meteor shower from the International Space Station on Instagram. Image credit: Instagram/NASA/Scott Kelly[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_7150051” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] A meteor streaks across the sky above Washington, DC during the annual Perseid meteor shower in 2015. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_7150081” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] The Perseid meteor shower that took place in 2015. Image credit: Flickr/ Thanasis Papathanasiou [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_7150111” align=“alignnone” width=“1000”] A NASA camera located near Tucson, Arizona, captured this image of a spider and a Perseid meteor on Aug. 5, 2019. Image credit: NASA[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_7150121” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower in August 2016 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_7150131” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Astronomer Fred Bruenjes recorded a series 30 second long exposures spanning about six hours in 2004 and combined them. There are 51 Perseid meteors in the composite image, including one seen nearly head-on. Image Credits: Fred Bruenjes[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_7150141” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] The Perseid meteors shower and the Milky Way. Image Credit: NASA/Jens Hackmann[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_7150601” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Perseids meteor shower. Image credit: NASA/Jimmy Westlake[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_7150611” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Perseid Meteors over Mount Shasta
Image Credit: NASA/Brad Goldpaint[/caption]