Wingsuit athletes Joakim Sommer, Armando del Rey, Marco Waltenspiel and Georg Lattner paid tribute to the Perseid meteor shower by flying across the skies over La Palma, Canary Islands, wearing LED wingsuits and "joining" the meteor shower on August 10, 2016. (Daniel Lopez / Red Bull Content Pool)

As stargazers turn to the skies to catch a glimspe of this year's , which is expected to be the most spectacular in 20 years, wingsuit athletes actually "joined" the meteor shower as they glided in the skies above La Palma, Canary Islands, while the stars shot around them on August 10.

The professional wingsuit pilots wanted to pay tribute to the astronomical phenomenon and chose La Palma because it is a key location for astronomical observation and its skies are knows to be the "cleanest" in the Northern Hemisphere.

Sommer, Waltenspiel, Lettner, and del Rey jumped from a T-21 plane belonging to the Spanish Air Force atan altitude of 5,905 feet and flew at a speed of 105 miles per hour above the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, where the world's biggest optic telescope, the Gran Telescopio de Canarias, is located. They achieved this complex flight in total darkness and wearing LED wingsuits, to simulate the shooting stars of the Perseids.

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"The experience has been amazing," said Sommer. "It literally felt like I was in a videogame. I was in this black tunnel and there was nothing else besides all those billions of stars in my face. It was a really unique visual because you could really feel the speed, but you have no other surroundings. You are just in pitch black; it is like you are out there in the outer space. It’s crazy, it was literally crazy."

But the jumpers didn't just pay tribute to the Perseids. La Palma was , and the team showed their support and gratitude to firefighters by saying "thanks" the best way they could—by lighting up a giant "GRACIAS" as seen in one of the photos in the slideshow above.

The Perseids, also known as the "tears of Saint Lawrence"are a prolific meteor shower lasting from July 17 to August 24 each year. This year, stargazers can expect to see an "outburst" of up to 200 meteors.

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