{"id":25387,"date":"2016-05-05T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/how-to-watch-tonights-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:00:22","slug":"how-to-watch-tonights-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/how-to-watch-tonights-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower","title":{"rendered":"How to Watch Tonight\u2019s Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-watch-tonights-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is tonight, and it\u2019s going to be a spectacular show. Here\u2019s how, when, and where to watch the Eta Aquarids\u2014and why they\u2019ve been so unjustly ignored for so long.<\/p>\n<p>The Eta Aquarids are a late spring meteor shower made up of the icy debris of Halley\u2019s Comet. The comet is actually responsible for two separate meteor showers a year\u2014this one and <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-orionids-meteor-shower-is-tonight-and-heres-how-to-1737695045\">the Orionids<\/a>, which occurs in October.<\/p>\n<p>The Orionids are typically overshadowed by the Eta Aquarids, but that shouldn\u2019t be seen as a judgement on the latter\u2019s quality. All it means is that people have been sleeping through a really excellent meteor shower for no good reason. Tonight is your chance to rectify that.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-to-watch-tonights-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-1774757698\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-to-watch-tonights-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-1774757698<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is tonight, and it\u2019s going to be a spectacular show. Here\u2019s how, when, and where to watch the Eta Aquarids\u2014and why they\u2019ve been so unjustly ignored for so long. The Eta Aquarids are a late spring meteor shower made up of the icy debris of Halley\u2019s Comet. The comet is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50590,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387\/revisions\/50590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}