PHOTOS: Meteors Streak Across The Night Sky At 100,000 MPH

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked on August 11 and 12 as Earth passed through a stream of debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. During the Perseids, as many as 100 meteors each hour enter Earth's atmosphere at 100,000 mph and then burn up at safe distance. Stargazers with a clear view of the night sky captured beautiful pictures from the celestial show.

A meteor streaks over the North Star in the California skies on Monday, August 12, 2013.

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Los Angeles photographers point their cameras at the stars during the Perseid meteor shower.

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An Aerospace photographer uses his iPhone to take photos of the fireballs on Monday, August 12, 2013.

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Stargazers gather in Castaic Lake, California, to watch the Perseid meteor shower in the pre-dawn hours on Monday, August, 12, 2013.

REUTERS/Gene BlevinsA meteor streaks over Castaic Lake, California, during the early morning.

REUTERS/Gene BlevinsA streak appears in the sky above a roadside billboard of a Spanish fighting bull in central Spain during the early hours of Monday, Aug. 12, 2013.

AP Photo/Paul WhiteA meteor sparks while entering the Earth's atmosphere behind an olive tree in Central Greece on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013.

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