{"id":663613,"date":"2020-08-11T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663613"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T14:18:12","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-peaks-after-midnight-nasa-says-its-one-of-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663613","title":{"rendered":"Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks After Midnight. NASA Says It&#039;s &#039;One Of The Best&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gettyimages-1165793741_wide-a4b966f680126cbfab6fadd39990fe86177cdb38.jpg\" alt=\"The Perseid Meteor Shower, pictured here near Death Valley, California, in 2019, is one of the most popular of the year. This summer, it peaks in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 12.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The light of the moon will reduce the visibility of some fainter meteors, but NASA says it&#8217;s still worth staying up late \u2014 or rising very very early on Wednesday \u2014 to see &#8220;nature&#8217;s fireworks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Bob Riha Jr\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/npr-rss-pixel-4.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/08\/11\/901094691\/perseid-meteor-shower-peaks-after-midnight-nasa-says-its-one-of-the-best?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks After Midnight. NASA Says It&#8217;s &#8216;One Of The Best&#8217;<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The light of the moon will reduce the visibility of some fainter meteors, but NASA says it&#8217;s still worth staying up late \u2014 or rising very very early on Wednesday&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}