The best photos from 2016's spectacular Perseid meteor shower
 

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, at least for the foreseeable future.)

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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...

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