Perseid meteor shower - in pictures

The Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UK Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Cotswold Water Park near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, UK Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, UK Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters

New Ralph's Cross on the North Yorkshire moors, UK Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Avebury's neolithic henge monument in Wiltshire, UK Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

Rushton Triangular Lodge, Northamptonshire, UK Photograph: John Robertson for the Guardian

Anavyssos, Greece Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/EPA

Landers in the Mojave desert, California, US Photograph: Paul Buck/EPA

Cathedral Gorge state park near Panaca in eastern Nevada, US Photograph: David Becker/ZUMA Press/Corbis

Leicester, Leicestershire, UK Photograph: Ollie Millington/Getty Images

Potsurnentsi, Bulgaria Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK Photograph: Jim Henderson/Barcroft Media

Railroad crossing at Ditto Marina Parkway, Huntsville, Alabama, US Photograph: Eric Schultz/AP

Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, UK Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Bogushevichi in Minsk, Belarus Photograph: Tatyana Zenkovich/EPA