{"id":577495,"date":"2026-08-23T04:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577495\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:02:14","slug":"apod-2026-august-22-mostly-perseids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/577495\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 August 22 &#8211; Mostly Perseids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/cementcz.eu\/network-cement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meteor-monitoring<\/a> cameras at an astronomical observatory in Czechia were aligned and combined to create this all-night, all-sky view. <a href=\"https:\/\/amsmeteors.org\/2026\/08\/meteor-activity-outlook-for-august-8-14-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On that night<\/a>, the total count came to 1,706 meteors. And since that coincided with the peak activity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/meteors-meteorites\/perseids\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Perseid Meteor Shower<\/a>, most are perseids. Their overwhelming numbers make them easy to spot. Quite convincingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap230809.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">perseid trails<\/a> all trace back to a single radiant on the sky at the upper right, a region in the annual shower&#8217;s eponymous constellation Perseus. But meteors belonging to other much less active showers can be revealed by finding their radiants too. For example, seen crossing the perseid trails are meteors from a shower whose radiant lies in Cygnus, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap250725.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kappa Cygnids<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popastro.com\/meteor\/meteor-showers\/#Antihelion%20Source%20(ANT)%20Radiant%20Centre%20Locations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antihelion complex<\/a>, a general region near Aquarius and opposite the Sun in the sky, is also <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap090511.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">identifiable<\/a> as a weak source for meteors.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: interplanetary road trip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[271739,111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-577495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}