{"id":1002027,"date":"2026-08-15T08:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002027\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:38:19","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-puts-on-light-show-in-night-sky-over-north-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002027\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseid meteor shower puts on light show in night sky over North Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Bay hills held the fog mostly at bay early Thursday, allowing good views during peak conditions for the Perseid meteor shower, a favorite of sky gazers because it can produce brilliant fireballs.<\/p>\n<p>The Perseids are debris from comet 109P\/Swift-Tuttle, an icy ball that orbits the sun every 133 years and isn\u2019t scheduled for a return visit until 2125. Observations of the perennial meteor shower date back over 2,000 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The marine layer fills Alexander Valley as the Milky Way highlights a falling Perseid meteor, Thursday morning, August 13, 2026. The lights of Geyserville illuminate the fog. The Perseids are remnants of comet 109P\/Swift-Tuttle, and will be active until Aug. 24. Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)\" width=\"2692\" height=\"538\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TPD-L-meteor-081426.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"4121370\" \/>The marine layer fills Alexander Valley as the Milky Way highlights a falling Perseid meteor, Thursday morning, August 13, 2026. The lights of Geyserville illuminate the fog. The Perseid shower will be active until Aug. 24. Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North Bay hills held the fog mostly at bay early Thursday, allowing good views during peak conditions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1002028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[24],"tags":[16814,401254,1585,51836,159,14571,783,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1002027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-milky-way","tag-napa-counties","tag-north-bay","tag-perseid-meteor-shower","tag-science","tag-sonoma","tag-space","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117098625481569461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}