{"id":145115,"date":"2022-08-29T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/aurigids-you-need-to-watch-the-most-mythical-meteor-shower-of-the-year-this-week"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T23:22:18","slug":"aurigids-you-need-to-watch-the-most-mythical-meteor-shower-of-the-year-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/aurigids-you-need-to-watch-the-most-mythical-meteor-shower-of-the-year-this-week","title":{"rendered":"Aurigids: You need to watch the most mythical meteor shower of the year this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aurigids-you-need-to-watch-the-most-mythical-meteor-shower-of-the-year-this-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The annual Aurigid Meteor Shower peaks this Thursday, September 1. Though the Aurigids are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/sky-guide-august-2022\">less flashy than some<\/a> (the American Meteor Society calls them a \u201creliable minor shower\u201d), they still put on a show worth watching. That\u2019s especially true since this year\u2019s shower coincides with a waxing crescent moon, meaning moonlight won\u2019t upstage the meteors. Here\u2019s everything you need to know to catch the Aurigids in action.<\/p>\n<p><b>When to see the Aurigid Meteor Shower<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Aurigids pelt our atmosphere with bits of burning rock and dust about this time every year. This year\u2019s Aurigid shower started on August 28 and will continue until September 4 or 5, but the real show happens at the meteor shower\u2019s peak, on September 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Aurigid Meteor Shower peaks this Thursday, September 1. Though the Aurigids are less flashy than some (the American Meteor Society calls them a \u201creliable minor shower\u201d), they still put on a show worth watching. That\u2019s especially true since this year\u2019s shower coincides with a waxing crescent moon, meaning moonlight won\u2019t upstage the meteors. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}