As up to 100 meteors an hour lit up the night sky, Flickr photographers captured the annual celestial event. This gallery features some of the photos we received in our Yahoo! News "Your Photos" group. The Perseids, named for the constellation Perseus from which the meteors appear to emerge, arrive when Earth passes through debris left by the Swift-Tuttle comet.
The comet’s dust smashes into our planet’s atmosphere at 132,000 mph, according to NASA.
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