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) .
