Stunning pictures of the annual Perseid meteor shower, which provides an incredible display in the night sky every August. Here’s a selection of your photos (used with kind permission)
Perseids Meteor shower at Carew Castle, Wales, UK by @rob_still. You can find more of his photos on his blog ‘stepping off’,
Meteor over Oswestry, Shropshire, UK by Richard Ellis (photo credit @richatquinta/Twitter)
Perseid capture, Northamptonshire, UK, by James Parker, UK (photo credit: @JP_Astronomy/Twitter)
Perseid meteor shower over Winchester by Dr James West (Photo credit: @ejwwest/Twitter)
Great evening chasing Perseids above Llyn Brenig, Wales, UK by Jonathen Hart (photo credit: @jonathenharty/Twitter)
Snapping a Perseid in light polluted skies, Manchester, UK, by Tim O’Brien, Professor of Astrophysics and Associate Director of The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (photo credit: @Tim_O_Brien/Twitter)
Double-burst Perseid meteor from the Craigantlet hills, Northern Ireland, by Jonathan Clark.
