Stargazers around the world have been admiring the annual Perseid meteor shower.
The spectacular display occurs every August when the Earth passes through a stream of space debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle. The shower reached its peak in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Cloud cover hampered the opportunity for many in the UK to watch the interstellar cascade. Matt Dobson, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather arm of the Press Association, said people in northern England and Scotland may have had a clearer view.
"There's a north-south split from North Wales, to Birmingham and then to East Anglia", he said. "South of that there's a lot of cloud around and very little chance of seeing any clear spells. There was a much better chance of seeing it in the north."
The Newbury Astronomical Society had said it was hoping to make it a global social event with the help of the Twitter networking site.
Friday, August 14, 2009
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