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China: Perseid Meteor Shower Dazzles Night Skies

Perseid meteor shower illuminated skies in many parts of China from the evening of August 12 to the early morning of August 13. In Datong, Shanxi Province, North China, the phenomenon was also seen early Sunday, August 11.

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid Showers Seen From Madrid

Perseid shower seen from the Sierra de Guadarrama, on August 12, 2024, in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, Spain. The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak usually coincides with the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. The meteors are released from the tail of a comet that passes every 130 years around the sun and that, at this time of the year, coincides with the orbit of the Earth. Photo by Diego Radames/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseid meteor shower lights up skies

STORY: Perseid meteor shower lights up skies DATELINE: Aug. 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:32 LOCATION: ZHANGBEI, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Perseid meteor shower 2. various of starry sky STORYLINE: Get ready for some shooting stars! The Perseids, one of the most highly anticipated annual meteor showers, peaked on Sunday. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Zhangbei, China. (XHTV)

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Perseids Meteor Shower

Perseid shower seen from the Os Ancares mountain range, on August 13, 2023, in Lugo, Galicia (Spain). The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak is usually close in time to the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. Photo by Carlos Castro / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Perseids Meteor Shower

Perseid shower seen from the Os Ancares mountain range, on August 13, 2023, in Lugo, Galicia (Spain). The Perseids, popularly known as the tears of San Lorenzo because their peak is usually close in time to the festivities of this saint, are a prolific annual meteor shower during the months of July and August. Photo by Carlos Castro / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Science study flourishes at 1st Thai-Japanese student science fair

Taishi Yoshida (L), a Japanese student from Tokyo Gakugei University Senior High School, gives a presentation on "Observing Perseids with the Naked Eye" to Thai students at the first Thailand-Japan student science fair, hosted by Thailand's Ministry of Education, at Princess Chulabhorn Science High School in the Thai resort town of Phetchaburi on Dec. 23, 2015. More than 600 Thai and Japanese science students and teachers participated in the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Perseid meteor shower over Czech Republic, Ursa Major, Great Bear, constellation

The 2020 Perseid meteor shower, upper left, is seen over landscape near Jivova village, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic, at night on August 13, 2020. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Svoboda)

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Perseid meteor shower over Czech Republic

The 2020 Perseid meteor shower is seen over landscape near Jivova village, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic, at night on August 13, 2020. (CTK Photo/Jaroslav Svoboda)