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08-12-2016, 05:33 PM
The best photos from 2016's spectacular Perseid meteor shower
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The night sky was alive with shooting stars on Thursday as people around the globe experienced one of the most active Perseid meteor showers in a long time.
Every year, the Earth collides with the debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet, which stretches 16 miles across. (Don't worry, we're safe (http://www.space.com/33677-comet-swift-tuttle-perseid-meteor-shower-source.html), at least for the foreseeable future.)
SEE ALSO: Here are 31 of the best space photographs of the year (http://mashable.com/2016/07/26/best-space-photos-contest-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
All that debris burns up in Earth's atmosphere, providing us with a nice little light show every summer.*
This year, Jupiter was positioned in a way that sent a particularly dense cloud of debris our planet's way.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/12/perseid-meteor-shower-pics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The night sky was alive with shooting stars on Thursday as people around the globe experienced one of the most active Perseid meteor showers in a long time.
Every year, the Earth collides with the debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet, which stretches 16 miles across. (Don't worry, we're safe (http://www.space.com/33677-comet-swift-tuttle-perseid-meteor-shower-source.html), at least for the foreseeable future.)
SEE ALSO: Here are 31 of the best space photographs of the year (http://mashable.com/2016/07/26/best-space-photos-contest-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
All that debris burns up in Earth's atmosphere, providing us with a nice little light show every summer.*
This year, Jupiter was positioned in a way that sent a particularly dense cloud of debris our planet's way.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/12/perseid-meteor-shower-pics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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