Admire the mysterious meteor shower

The meteor shower that appears every year has shone in the night sky with hundreds of light rays across the night.

Meteors are debris left after a comet invades Earth's atmosphere. (Photo: Reuters) .

Meteor shower Persied in the sky Vinton, California, 2009. Meteor shower Persied usually occurs around August every year. (Photo: AP)

Leonid meteor shower in Azrak, Jordan, 1999.

A meteor launches through the sky at Joshua Tree National Park in California, USA, in 1999. Leonid meteor shower rarely occurs every 33 years. (Photo: AP) .

Meteor shower at Beijing Space Observatory, 1998. (Photo: AP) .

Leonid meteor shower crosses the sky at the town of Rikubetsu, in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, in 2001. (Photo: Reuters).

Leonid meteor shower on Mount Fuji Japan, 2001. (Photo: Reuters) .

Ice stars soar through the sky at Joshua Tree National Park in California, USA, 1998. (Photo: AP) .

Leonid meteor shower at the top of Mount Fuji, Japan, 2001. (Photo: AP) .

Shooting stars on the wild landscape of Joshua Tree National Park, California, 1998. The bright star above is Sirus, the brightest star in the sky. (Photo: AP) .

Leonid meteorite population in the sky at the Great Wall, China, 1998. (Photo: AP).

Sky meteor shooting at Gzhel, east of Moscow. (Photo: AFP) .

A meteor glows in the sky of Hong Kong, in the Parseids meteor shower in 1998. (Photo: AP) .

A Perseid shooting star interrupts the sky at Orion's Belt in 1997. (Photo: AP) .

Leonid meteor lights the night sky in the desert near Amman in 2002. (Photo: Reuters) .