{"id":1002150,"date":"2026-08-15T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002150\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:05:17","slug":"apod-2026-august-15-bright-perseids-from-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002150\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 August 15 &#8211; Bright Perseids from Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Explanation:<\/strong> Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/meteors-meteorites\/perseids\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perseid Meteor Shower<\/a> comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap260812.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planet Earth&#8217;s skies<\/a> from a radiant in the heroic constellation Perseus. The popular northern summer celestial spectacle is created as grains of dust cast off <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap260717.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">along the orbit<\/a> of periodic comet 109P\/Swift-Tuttle <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap260803.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vaporize<\/a> in Earth&#8217;s dense atmosphere, tracing brief, but beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap180908.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streaks through the night<\/a>. Taken near the shower&#8217;s peak of activity on August 12, this composite image recorded two bright perseid meteors and one meteor&#8217;s watery reflection from a location near the coastal village of Grisslehamn, Sweden. Almost as bright as Altair, brightest star on the scene, the meteors appear along with the faint, diffuse background of the Milky Way. This year, the shower&#8217;s peak activity coincided with a New Moon, so perseid meteor flashes were undiminished by <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap220818.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bright moonlight<\/a>. And for many skywatchers, this night of bright perseid meteors followed <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap260813.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their viewing<\/a> of the silhouette of the New Moon in a much anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/eclipses\/future-eclipses\/total-solar-eclipse-on-august-12-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">solar eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Gallery: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.1048378671224043&amp;type=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Solar Eclipse of 2026 August 12<\/a><br \/><strong>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: <\/strong>Milky Way over Yellowstone\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth&#8217;s skies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1002151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[24],"tags":[390123,159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1002150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-science","tag-space","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117098966467929874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002150","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=1002150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}