Last night saw the Perseid meteor shower reach its peak, with hundreds of shooting stars filling the sky in the early hours of August 12.
Stargazers around the UK were out en masse to watch the spectacular display and take photos.

Last night saw the Perseid meteor shower reach its peak, with hundreds of shooting stars filling the sky in the early hours of August 12.
Stargazers around the UK were out en masse to watch the spectacular display and take photos.
The meteor shower is thought to have peaked at around 01:00 BST, when 80 or more meteors were streaking across the sky every hour.
Named after the Perseus constellation, which is the point in the night sky from which the meteors appear to emerge, the Perseids are pieces of debris from the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle.
As the Earth passes through this dense cloud of debris, chunks of celestial rock burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, appearing as bright streaks of light zipping across the sky.
This year's meteor shower is double the size of previous years, thanks to the gravitational pull of Jupiter. The massive planet is bending the orbit of the Perseid outburst to bring it nearer to Earth.
Although the meteor shower technically started on July 17, and reached its zenith last night, it is due to run until August 24, so there is still plenty of time to see it.
"The days on either side of the peak have elevated rates too, and even a week before and after the 12th you'll see some Perseids," said Jane Houston Jones f