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Credit: ESO/S. Guisard Wherever you are this weekend, if you get the chance, don’t forget to look up.

Credit: ESO/S. Guisard The Perseids meteor shower, which peaks August 11-12, isn’t just a dazzling celestial show.

Astrophotographer Stéphane Guisard took this remarkable picture of Orion rising over the Temple of Kukulkan in the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza.

Stephane Guisard www.astrosurf.com/sguisard The image you see here is nothing short of mind-blowing, for any number of reasons.

If I were found out in any such conspiracy, either by the Queen, who watches me as if I were an infant in arms, or by my two jailers, who let no one come into the château, I should be banished from the country, and taken back to Florence under a formidable escort captained by some ruffianly Guisard!