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'Once-in-a-lifetime' photo: Perseid meteors, northern lights and rare glowing arc shine over 11th-century castle

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Photographer Josh Dury set out to photograph the peak of the Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 12 and Aug. 13 .

He captured stunning images of the meteor shower, northern lights and a rare atmospheric glow known as an SAR arc.

The image also contains the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies.

Daisy Dobrijevic joined Space.com in February 2022 as a reference writer.

She previously worked for our sister publication All About Space magazine as a staff writer.

Daisy completed an editorial internship with the BBC Sky at Night Magazine and worked at the National Space Centre in Leicester , U.K ..