A streak of a shooting star can be seen in the night sky with silhouettes of pine trees in the foreground.
On the evening of Aug. 3, 2025, NASA photographer Bill Ingalls captured a fleeting 'shooting star' over the night skies in West Virginia during two different meteor showers. As these events continue to rain meteors across the sky, stargazers plan to see these events in areas with little light pollution.
A 30-second exposure photograph showing a meteor in the night sky during the annual Perseid and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, as seen from Spruce Knob, West Virginia. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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