Meteors streak past stars in the night sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower above Santo Tome del Puerto, in Segovia, Spain on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Ana Beltran/Reuters)





A view from an abandoned military airbase shows the night sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower in the region of Kakheti, Georgia on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters)





A long exposure image shows the recorded temperature on a thermostat at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center, after 10:00 p.m. on July 7, 2024, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. (Photo by Ty ONeil/AP Photo)





The Large Magellanic Cloud (center) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (upper left), dwarf galaxies in close proximity with the Milky Way galaxy, are pictured from the International Space Station, August 6, 2024. NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick took this long-duration photograph with a station camera increasing its sensitivity to account for low light conditions. (Photo by NASA)





Nightfall over the historic ruins of the ancient city of Blaundos in Turkey on August 5, 2024, where settlers from Macedonia arrived during Alexander the Great’s Anatolian campaign. (Photo by Mehmet Calik/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Astronomers observe the northern skies during the Perseid meteor shower in Kozjak, North Macedonia on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters)





The Perseid meteor shower in Sahagún, Castile and León, Spain on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Luis Soto/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Meteors streak past stars in the night sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower above Santo Tome del Puerto, in Segovia, Spain on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Ana Beltran/Reuters)





The galactic core of the Milky Way glows brightly in the clear night sky above St Catherine?s Chapel at Abbotsbury in Dorset, UK on August 2, 2024. (Photo by Graham Hunt/Alamy Live News)





Pictured is the Milky Way core over Stonehenge in Wiltshire on Friday night, May 31, 2024. The image consists of 16 two-minute exposures of the sky using a motorised star tracker, and a single two-minute exposure of the foreground all merged together to reveal more detail than what the naked eye can see. (Photo by Nick Bull/Picture Exclusive)





The Milky Way over a sea of opium poppies in bloom near Blandford in Dorset, the light pink poppies are grown under licence for medical morphine on July 10, 2024. Captured with a single 13-second exposure. (Photo by Alister Gooding/Picture Exclusive)





The aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, are visible on May 10, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Northern lights in Ukraine were seen by residents of several regions, first in the south and east, and later in the center and west of the country. (Photo by Viacheslav Mavrychev/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)





People gather to watch the annual Perseid meteor shower near the village of Borodinka in the Omsk region, Russia on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A tree is seen burning during a fire in the Pantanal, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, on June 11, 2024. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)





Ancient statues are seen during the Perseid meteor shower atop Mount Nemrut in southeastern Turkey, Monday, August 12, 2024. Perched at an altitude of 2,150 meters (over 7,000 feet), the statues are part of a temple and tomb complex that King Antiochus I, of the ancient Commagene kingdom, built as a monument to himself. (Photo by Emrah Gurel/AP Photo)