... This week will be a good one for midnight meditators at many northerly locations as meteors from the Perseid meteor shower will frequently streaked through. ... Pictured above on 2002 August 1, a group of celestial sightseers near Quebec, Canada are treated to a dark and wondrous night sky that contained bright stars , green auroras , the band of our Milky Way galaxy , a majestic Moon rising , the International Space Station slowly gliding by , and the occasional flash of a Perseid meteor . ...