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Photos:: Perseid meteor shower 2015

College photography professor Donna Cosentino watches meteor streak through the sky above Anza Borrego Desert State Park, just before dawn on Thursday. Scores of the "shooting stars" were observed during the annual skyshow when Earth passed through interplanetary matter from an orbiting comet.

College photography professor Donna Cosentino watches meteor streak through the sky above Anza Borrego Desert State Park, just before dawn on Thursday. Scores of the “shooting stars” were observed during the annual skyshow when Earth passed through interplanetary matter from an orbiting comet.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

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The Perseids occur every year at this time, but 2015 was expected to be spectacular because of the new moon (no moonlight to flood the sky). The meteor showers were at their peak between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.

Perseid meteor shower

College photography professors Donna Cosentino and Judith Preston watch a Persied meteor streak through the starry sky above Anza Borrego Desert State Park.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Perseid meteor shower

A meteor crosses the sky behind the lighthouse in Pilsum, Germany.

  (Matthias Balk / AFP/Getty Images)

Perseid meteor shower

A meteor above Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

  (Griffin Moores / Associated Press)

Perseid meteor shower

A meteor crosses the sky over the North Sea coast in Pilsum, Germany.

  (Matthias Balk / AFP/Getty Images)

Perseid meteor shower

A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky above desert pine trees in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nev.

  (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)

Perseid meteor shower

A meteor passes above Rievaulx Abbey in England.

  (Oli Scarff / AFP/Getty Images)

Perseid meteor shower

A meteor streaks through a bare patch of sky above Gainesville, Fla.

  (Matt Stamey / Associated Press)

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