<p>While an electric-lighted line of mountain climbers snakes toward it, a meteor streaks over <a id="dy2r" title="Tanzania" href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/tanzania-guide/">Tanzania</a>'s Mount Kilimanjaro in a photograph released Monday.</p><p>Similar shows dazzled Northern Hemisphere stargazers Thursday night and early Friday as the <a id="ofka" title="Perseid meteor shower peaked" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100811-science-space-stargazing-meteor-showers-perseids/">Perseid meteor shower peaked</a> and the moon waned, allowing shooting stars to shine brighter.</p><p>(<a id="sr1i" title="Perseid Pictures: Meteor Shower Dazzles Every August." href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/photogalleries/100811-perseid-meteor-shower-pictures-perseids-science-space-astronomy/">Perseid Pictures: Meteor Shower Dazzles Every August.</a>)</p>
The Glows of Kilimanjaro
While an electric-lighted line of mountain climbers snakes toward it, a meteor streaks over Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro in a photograph released Monday.
Similar shows dazzled Northern Hemisphere stargazers Thursday night and early Friday as the Perseid meteor shower peaked and the moon waned, allowing shooting stars to shine brighter.
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