Meteor Shower 2012: Annual 'Shooting Star' Show To Hit Night Sky This Week Photos

 

The Perseid meteor shower is peaking on Sunday, August 12th. The sky map below shows the location in the northern sky where the Perseid meteor shower will appear to originate from in 2012. The Perseid meteor shower hits its peak every August and appears to come out of the constellation Perseus.

This is the weekend of the peak of the annual Meteor Shower 2012 and most meteor forecasts predict the annual "shooting star" display will be at its best during the overnight hours of late Saturday into the early Sunday.

The Perseid meteor shower occurs each year in late July and early August when the Earth passes through the dusty remains of the comet Swift-Tuttle. In the night sky, the meteor shower appears to radiate out of the constellation Perseus, hence, its name: Meteor Shower.