Bright meteors whiz through the night sky as the annual Perseid meteor shower passed through the Northern Hemisphere on Monday and Tuesday. /VCG Photo

A meteor blazes across the sky near the Monument to the Revolution at Kozara during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Monday. /VCG Photo

On Monday night, the breathtaking spectacle of the Perseid meteor was captured in Russia's Krasnodar region. /VCG Photo

A long exposure photo showed a meteor streaking across the sky in the early morning during the annual Perseid meteor shower near the town of Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel on Tuesday. /VCG Photo

Visitors observed 60 to 80 meteors that were visible to the naked eye in Esme district of Turkey's western Usak province on Tuesday. /VCG Photo