{"id":142979,"date":"2025-08-13T17:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142979\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:51:13","slug":"where-and-when-you-can-still-watch-the-years-brightest-shower-before-it-ends-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142979\/","title":{"rendered":"Where and when you can still watch the year’s brightest shower before it ends next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the Perseid meteor shower peaked late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, stargazers can still catch a glimpse of the meteors until Aug. 23.<\/p>\n

The Perseid shower, which has been active since July 17, is \u201cconsidered the best meteor shower of the year,\u201d according to NASA<\/a>. At its peak, viewers could see up to 100 streaks every hour, which is high compared to the average peak meteor shower rate of at least 15 meteors every hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Viewers who missed the peak can still see some of the action over the next few nights if they watch in a dark area away from city lights and look to the northeast before sunrise. To find the best time to see the Perseid shower where you are, check the Global Meteor Network\u2019s meteor-tracker. <\/a><\/p>\n

What to know about the Perseid meteor shower<\/p>\n

Perseid meteors leave particularly long, bright trails as they fall through Earth\u2019s atmosphere, with about 50 to 100 streaks expected to be visible every hour at their peak.<\/p>\n

The Perseid shower comes from comet 109\/Swift-Tuttle<\/a>, a comet that takes 133 years to orbit the sun and crosses the Earth\u2019s orbit once a year. The shower\u2019s name comes from the constellation Perseus, NASA explains,<\/a> which is the point in the sky from which the Perseid meteors are visibly falling.<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

One of Perseid’s meteors soars across the sky on Aug. 12, over Hatay, Turkey. (Ali Kemal Zerenli\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Perseid meteor shower over Lake Sonoma in Northern California’s Sonoma County. (Tayfun Coskun\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Temple of Zeus at the Aizanoi Ancient City site in Turkey, amid peak Perseid meteor shower. (Kemal Aslan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

What is a meteor shower?<\/p>\n

Meteoroids are falling pieces of debris from comets and asteroids that, as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere, turn into meteors, according to NASA<\/a>. As meteors vaporize, their trails are visible from Earth, which is what we call \u201cshooting stars\u201d or \u201cfalling stars.\u201d<\/p>\n

A meteor shower is what happens when there\u2019s a higher-than-usual number of meteors falling across the sky in a short period of time. Meteor showers happen at certain times throughout the year because comets also orbit the sun, so when a comet and the Earth cross paths<\/a>, the Earth encounters a lot of the comet\u2019s debris, or meteoroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the Perseid meteor shower peaked late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, stargazers can still catch a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19773,84929,83635,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-142979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-meteor-shower","9":"tag-perseid-meteors","10":"tag-perseid-shower","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115022730783667631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142979","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=142979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}