What the Perseid meteors looked like from space - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

If you were lucky, you might have caught a glimpse of the annual Perseid meteor shower through the reflective glare of the full moon late last week.

But here's a vantage point you couldn't find anywhere on Earth.

What a "Shooting Star" looks like #FromSpace Taken yesterday during Perseids Meteor Shower Thanks @JakeGaran 4 camera settings. (Via @Astro_Ron on Twitter)

That photo was taken by Ron Garan, a NASA astronaut at the International Space Station. It shows a meteor — a piece of debris left over from the Comet Swift-Tuttle, in this case — on its way into the Earth's atmosphere.

Garan posted the photo to his Twitter account last weekend.

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