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shooting stars sky spectacle

Berlin (dpa) - Thousands of falling stars of today will spark an explosion in the night sky. Then begins the Perseidenstrom, which opened on Thursday evening reached its maximum. With around 100 meteors, astronomers expect on the day per hour. fireworks in the night sky. Begins this week the Perseidenstrom © dpa The shooting stars appear from the constellation Perseus to stream and came out to her name. In reality, the Earth collides in its orbit around the sun each year, the ejected fragments of the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. This burn up in the air surrounding our planet. The first recorded observation of the Perseids was in China about 2000 years ago. Later, there were records from Japan and Korea. The first known observation from Europe came in 811th In the vernacular, the Perseids are also known as Lawrence's tears, after the martyr who according to legend, on 10 August 258 AD in Rome, was tortured to death on a hot grill.