Perseids Meteor Shower

Por HQ Web Team13/08/2026 às 15:081 visualizações
The night sky is filled with stars. Looking toward the bottom left and top right, two streaks are visible. These are meteors. Between the two streaks is the constellation Orion. The bottom of the image is lined with the silhouette of treetops.
The night sky is filled with stars. Looking toward the bottom left and top right, two streaks are visible. These are meteors. Between the two streaks is the constellation Orion. The bottom of the image is lined with the silhouette of treetops.
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Perseids Meteor Shower
NASA/Bill Dunford
NASA/Bill Dunford
NASA/Bill Dunford

The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors in this photo from Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah.

The Perseids – one of the year’s brightest and most popular meteor showers – has been ramping up since early July and will sparkle in the skies through the end of August. The shower reached its peak on the night of Aug. 12 into the early morning of Aug. 13.

Rewatch the Aug. 13 meteor shower.

Image credit: NASA/Bill Dunford

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