Over the last two nights, the annual Perseid meteor shower has once again rewarded stargazers around the world with some spectacular views. This picture

shows a meteor streaking past stars over the El Torcal nature park reserve in the southern Spanish town of Antequera, near Malaga, on 13 August. Click through

the images below for more.Reuters/Jon Nazca

Grazalema, Spain

• A• A meteor speeds across the sky near Grazalema in southern Spain• The Perseid shower is caused by debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. Every 133 years,

the comet travels through the inner part of our Solar System, leaving behind a trail of dust and gravel. When our planet passes through this debris, specks hit the Earth's atmosphere at 140,000mph and disintegrate in flashes of light.

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Stonehenge

• This picture shows a meteor streaking past stars in the night sky over Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain on the evening of 12 AugusReuters/Kieran

Dohertyt.

Skopje, Macedonia

• A meteor is seen sparking along the Milky Way while entering the Earth's atmosphere in the sky just south of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.

• AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski

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Tecate, California

• A meteor is captured on this long exposure photograph as it flies through the night sky above Tecate in Baja, California.

• Reuters/Jorge Duenes

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Nanning, China

• A meteor speeding through the sky above Nanning in China. The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear to fly out of the constellation Perseus

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Grossmugl, Austria

A meteor is seen travelling past stars in the night sky over Leeberg Hill in Grossmugl, some 30km north of Vienna. This picture was taken using a long exposure.

Reuters/Lisi Niesner

Stonehenge

• A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over Stonehenge.

Reuters/Kieran Doherty

Grazalema, Spain

• A meteor is seen speeding across the sky near Grazalema in southern Spain. According to Nasa, the shower produces a display of up to 80 meteors per hour.

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Skopje, Macedonia

• A couple of stargazers observe a meteor sparking while entering the Earth's atmosphere, in this long exposure picture taken from a mountain just south of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.

AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski

Nanning, China

• A meteor speeds through the sky above Nanning in China.

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Grazalema, Spain

• A meteor is seen speeding across the sky near Grazalema in southern Spain.

Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images

Skopje

• A meteor is seen sparking along the Milky Way while entering the Earth's atmosphere in the sky just south of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.

AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski

The Perseid meteor shower is captured in Chichijima, Ogasawara Islands, known as The Bonin, approximately 1000km south of Tokyo.

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