On the night of April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up at the night skies, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station trained his video camera on Earth below. This image was taken on April 22, 2012.
Skywatcher Shauna M. Jackson sent in this picture taken on April 22, 2012. She writes: "I took this last night when I was shooting the aurora and stars, just east of Elk Island Park, in Alberta, Canada. I caught one little Lyrid meteor."
On the night of April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up at the night skies, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station trained his video camera on Earth below. This image was taken taken on April 22, 2012
Jim Gamble of ELPALLSKY sent in this all-sky shot of a Lyrid meteor taken on April 23, 2012. ELPALLSKY is part of the Sentinel Meteor Fireball Camera Network.
A bright, clear Lyrid meteor in captured in this image, seen in the skies over El Paso, Texas, during the peak hours of the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower. The image is overlaid with a map of the constellations in the night sky.
Skywatcher Paraksh Vankawala sent in some photos and wrote: " ... I am 14 years old. Here are a few photos I took last night from Cedar Hill, Texas at around 12:30 A.M., April 22 [2012]. I hope you enjoy them!"
Photographer Bill Allen of Ralph, Saskatchewan in Canada captured this amazing view of a Lyrid meteor and the northern lights during the Lyrid meteor shower peak overnight on April 21-22, 2012
Skywatcher and photographer Brian Emfinger captured this magnificent Lyrid fireball with the Milky Way in the background from Ozark, Ark., during the April 21-22 peak of the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower.
Photographer Veerayen Mohanadas snapped this stunning view of a Lyrid meteor from Kulim, Kedah in Malaysia during the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peak on April 22, 2012.
Skywatcher and photographer Marian Murdoch snapped this photo of a Lyrid meteor from Ridgecrest, Calif., during the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peak on April 22, 2012.
A Lyrid meteor shines bright in this amazing long exposure view from photographer Veerayen Mohanadas of Kulim, Kedah in Malaysia. Mohanadas took this image during the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peak on April 22, 2012.
Skywatcher and photographer Marian Murdoch snapped this photo of a Lyrid meteor from Ridgecrest, Calif., during the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peak on April 22, 2012.
Skywatcher and photographer Marian Murdoch snapped this photo of a Lyrid meteor (possibly two) from Ridgecrest, Calif., during the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peak on April 22, 2012.
In Bishop, Calif., students led by astronomer Tony Phillips inflate a weather balloon to carry a NASA camera into the stratosphere to photograph the Lyrid meteor shower on April 22, 2012. The project was a joint effort by Phillips, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Union High School and Home Street Middle School in Bishop.
April 22, 2012: According to the GPS trackers, the meteor balloon is passed high over the uninhabited White Mountains east of Bishop CA. This is one of the darkest places in the USA and if there are any Lyrids, we should see them!
Skywatcher and photographer Marian Murdoch snapped this photo of a Lyrid meteor from Ridgecrest, Calif., during the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peak on April 22, 2012.
This NASA image shows a prototype camera and DVR payload for a balloon-based meteor observation flight into the atmosphere. The camera rode a student balloon from Bishop, Calif., to photograph the Lyrid meteor shower on April 22, 2012.
Skywatcher and photographer Marian Murdoch snapped this photo of a Lyrid meteor from Ridgecrest, Calif., during the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peak on April 22, 2012.
This still from a NASA video shows the path of Comet Thatcher, with orbits the sun once ever 415 years and is the source of the Earth's annual Lyrid meteor shower in mid-April.
Don Pettit takes a self-portrait in the Cuopla of the International Space Station on Feb. 26, 2012. Pettit will attempt to see the Lyrid meteor shower from the ISS.
This graphic shows the ISS ground track near the time of the Lyrid peak.
Lyrid meteor shower sky map, April 22, 2012.
Lyrid meteors stream out of a point in the sky near the birght star Vega and the constellation Lyra.
