{"id":629545,"date":"2025-12-13T04:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629545\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:43:12","slug":"meteor-shower-to-be-visible-in-suffolk-skies-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629545\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor shower to be visible in Suffolk skies in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Geminids are considered to be one of the best annual meteor showers due to its brightness, intensity and consistency.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will peak overnight on Sunday and is expected to produce more than 120 meteors per hour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to Royal Museums Greenwich, the meteors are multi-coloured &#8211; mainly white with some being yellow, green, red and blue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25672161.rare-sighting-northern-lights-spotted-across-suffolk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Northern Lights spotted across Suffolk in rare sighting<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The colours are caused by the presence of traces of metals like sodium and calcium.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Geminids are the only major meteor shower which does not originate from a comet and they are believed to be intensifying every year.\n<\/p>\n<p>  How can I see the Geminid meteor shower?<\/p>\n<p>\n  The peak is happening when the moon is a waning crescent, meaning viewing conditions are favourable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The best places to see meteors are away from street lights and sources of light pollution, such as on the Suffolk coast.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meteors can be seen in all parts of the sky and can be seen with the naked eye, but they will appear to originate from the Gemini constellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Geminids are considered to be one of the best annual meteor showers due to its brightness, intensity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-629545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115710433977539576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}