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Meteor Shower and superluna light up the sky Wednesday

Between 3 a. m. and 4. m. This Wednesday, a light show will invade the sky. The superluna again illuminate the night with her radiant glow and enormous figure (as he had done two weeks ago). But it will not do alone. This week will be accompanied by a meteor shower called Perseids Tears of San Lorenzo, a phenomenon not lack in August and represented as a battle of lights in the sky. 

One of his names arises because the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle (which goes around the Sun every 133 years) passes near the Earth and its radiant is in the constellation Perseus. (See the gallery here 'superluna' 2014 portrayed from several parts of the world) 

The other name is the tribute paid in countries like Spain, the deacon St. Lawrence, who died on August 10. 

Although the two phenomena occur with some frequency, the extraordinary is that coincide in one night.