{"id":241811,"date":"2026-07-30T00:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/two-meteor-showers-peak-this-week-heres-how-to-watch"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:11:23","slug":"two-meteor-showers-peak-this-week-heres-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/two-meteor-showers-peak-this-week-heres-how-to-watch","title":{"rendered":"Two meteor showers peak this week. Here\u2019s how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-meteor-showers-peak-this-week-heres-how-to-watch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A double meteor shower peak will occur this week \u2014 but sky-gazers might have a difficult time catching a glimpse of the cosmic activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Alpha Capricornids are active from early July to mid-August, and the Southern Delta Aquariids are active from mid-July to mid-August, but both are expected to reach their peaks \u2014 the point at which Earth will pass through the densest part of the shower \u2014 Thursday night into Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/meteor-showers\/meteor-shower-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to the American Meteor Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A third meteor shower, the Perseids, will also be active this week, though it won\u2019t peak until mid-August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A double meteor shower peak will occur this week \u2014 but sky-gazers might have a difficult time catching a glimpse of the cosmic activity. The Alpha Capricornids are active from early July to mid-August, and the Southern Delta Aquariids are active from mid-July to mid-August, but both are expected to reach their peaks \u2014 the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241811","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}