The shooting stars brighten up the nights of summer 2025. Like every year, the Perseids are back in the sky, to the delight of amateurs of astronomy and photographers. Here are the most splendid images of these meteors, seen this year.
If you should only admire an astronomical phenomenon in August 2025, they are them. The Perseids, a superb swarm of shooting stars, are back in the sky. Their peak of activity is imminent: it is planned this evening, on the night of Tuesday 12 to Wednesday August 13.
However, it is possible to see longer, because the swarm is generally active from mid-July to early September. This is all the more good news that this year, the Gibbous Moon does not facilitate the observation of the Perseids at the time of the maximum.
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Perseids in photos: the most beautiful images of the shooting stars of summer 2025
Moreover, many photographers did not wait for the maximum of the rain of shooting stars to immortalize them. Magnificent photos of the Perseids, in 2025, are already starting to be broadcast online.
A meteor of the Perseids on August 3, 2025, photographed from Virginia-Western. // Source: Flickr/CC/NASA/BILL Ingalls (cropped photo)
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Perseids are known worldwide for their shine, abundance and speed. According to NASA, around 50 to 100 meteors can be visible per hour. These meteors leave colorful light streaks in their wake, coming into contact with the atmosphere of the earth.
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Perseids are all the more pleasant to admire since their maximum activity occurs during the summer. For observers and observers of the sky, it is therefore much more comfortable to spend the night outside them in the middle of winter – as with the shooting stars of the geminids, for example (however magnificent, too).
— Mary McIntyre @marymcintyreastro.bsky.social (@Spicey_Spiney) August 11, 2025
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The origin of the Perseids is a comet, 109p/Swift-Tuttle, discovered in 1862 by two astronomers (Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle, which independently made its discovery). We know that it takes 133 years to this comet to take a tour of the sun, and that its nucleus is rather large – 26 km.
This comet produces a dusty streak, when it approaches the sun. It is these fragments that collide every year with the atmosphere of the earth, causing the superb shooting stars that we can then admire or, for the most skillful, photograph.
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