Stargazers had a treat in the early hours as the Perseid meteor shower lit up the sky.
It's made up of debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet and happens every August.
The meteors, mostly no bigger than a grain of sand, burn up as they hit the atmosphere at 36 miles per second to produce a shooting stream of light in the sky.
Photographer David Costello captured some spectacular shots as the shower lit up Irish skies this year and last year:
A large Perseid falls above a mirror Glendalough lake in Wicklow #PerseidMeteorShower #Glendalough #LoveIreland #Perseids #Wicklow #Ireland pic.twitter.com/KuR3e1yqSb
— David Costello (@DavidCostelloDC) August 13, 2017
The Milky Way & a Perseid meteor above Wicklow town on Thursday night #Wicklow #persied #meteor #Milkyway #Ireland pic.twitter.com/83pflygz84
— David Costello (@DavidCostelloDC) August 13, 2016
Other Twitter users have also been sharing their stunning images:
Perseid meteors across Ireland overnight. Photos - Downhill @smilercfc1 - Waterford @Spookwoman - Down @paulmoane. pic.twitter.com/tlKWgaWEJ8
— Barra Best (@barrabest) August 12, 2016
#space: My Picture of the Perseid Meteor Shower taken from County Wicklow in Ireland tonig… https://t.co/uQa2KQBDDT pic.twitter.com/f4GBUOPss3
— r/ (@bzdt3) August 12, 2016
