If you visit the Google home page, you will see a special doodle representing the Perseid meteor shower. The special meteor shower is expected to pass by earth today with about a 100 meteors per hour flying by and burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. Very cool and exciting, which is why Google has a Perseids doodle for the special day.

Here is the Perseids Google Doodle:

Wikipedia explains the nature of such a shower:

I am a bit surprised to see Microsoft’s Bing not doing something special with their home page today. Perhaps we will see a Perseids Meteor Shower background later today?

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