Photo: Perseid Meteor Shower to Peak Tonight, Tomorrow

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Meteors streak past stars over a Bedouin tent near Amman, Jordan, in the early hours of August 12, 2004.

The annual Perseid meteor shower, which will peak between August 11 and 12 in 2008, is created as Earth plows through a stream of dust and small rocks trailed by the comet 109P Swift-Tuttle.

Photograph by Ali Jarekji/Reuters

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