Live Radio
Home » Latest News » Perseids meteor shower

Perseids meteor shower

WTOP Staff | WTOP_website@wtop.com

August 13, 2013, 10:46 PM

APTOPIX Perseids Meteor Showser It will appear as though the night sky is raining meteors during tonight's Perseids meteor shower. A meteor is expected to fall every minute. (AP Photo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Blaine McCartney)
AP Photo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Blaine McCartney
A meteor streaks past the faint band of the Milky Way galaxy above the Wyoming countryside in August 2013. The Lyrid meteor shower is one of 12 meteor showers each year. (AP Photo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Blaine McCartney)
AP Photo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Blaine McCartney
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)
AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris
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)
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)
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)
AP Photo/Paul White
(1/6)

Related News

Recommended

Related Categories:

Latest News
Federal News Network Logo
Log in to your WTOP account for notifications and alerts customized for you.

Sign up