If you, like me, are a space nerd living in a city, then you can appreciate the struggle of finding clear skies to watch a meteor shower. But while I couldn’t make it out from under Philly’s omnipresent light pollution umbrella last week, I got a taste of the Perseid meteor shower
thanks to the brilliant work of astrophotographer Harun Mehmedinovic.
Source: Gizmodo – A Fireball Over the Grand Canyon Makes Planet Earth Look Extraterrestrial