A photographer caught these beautiful images of meteors and shooting stars near Floyd, Virginia. | USA TODAY Video

Shooting stars will be visible in the skies tonight, as the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak. The annual event occurs when the earth moves through the trail of debris left by the Swift-Tuttle comet, which orbits the sun. Around 150 meteors will cross the sky each hour, with the best time to see them late in the night when the skies are darkest.#Shootingstars #Sky #Perseid #MeteorShower #Channel4News #C4News | Channel 4 News

In this timelapse video, the Milky Way arcs over the Mack Reef archipelago at Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge as Perseid meteors streak across the sky. The popular annual meteor shower started in July and will peak on the night of August 12. Video by Peter Pearsall / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | U.S. Department of the Interior