This photograph contains Images of the Perseid Meteor Shower. The stream of debris is called the Perseid cloud and stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it travels on its 133 year orbit. Most of the particles have been part of the cloud for around a thousand years. The earliest information on this meteor shower is found in Chinese annals in 36 AD.<br />
This photograph was taken on August 12,2013 at 2:12am. The photo is 15.5MB in size.