By Samantha-Rae Tuthill, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer
August 12,2013; 4:36PM,EDT
The Perseid meteor shower, called the Fireball Champion for the brilliant lights that streak across the sky, will continue on Monday night after a breathtaking display on Aug. 11. View these photos submitted by AccuWeather.com Astronomy Facebook fans, and head over to our page to submit some of your own after the display tonight.
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A Perseid meteor shoots across the night sky on Sunday. Photo by Lorraine Mahoney.
A meteor streaks across a star-studded sky in the Red Desert of Wyoming Aug. 11. Photo by Randy Halverson.
A Perseid meteor seen in Saginaw, Minn. Photo by Matthew E. Moses.
This
meteor was captured on film in the late night/early morning hours of
Aug. 12 at Caesar's Creek Beach in Waynesville, Ohio. Photo by Vickie
Barnhill.
Photographer Brian Drourr said of this picture, "I was up high in Smuggler's Notch in the Green Mountains of Vermont last night for an assignment and caught many Perseids." Photo by Brian Drourr Photography.
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