{"id":598655,"date":"2026-09-13T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598655\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T02:24:09","slug":"five-night-sky-events-to-look-forward-to-this-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598655\/","title":{"rendered":"Five night sky events to look forward to this autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another meteor shower arrives later in November, with the Leonids expected to peak around 17 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Leonids can travel at about 70km per second as they enter the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, making them some of the fastest meteors visible from Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under ideal, dark sky conditions, around 10 to 15 Leonids an hour can be visible at the shower&#8217;s peak, although the actual number seen will depend on weather, light pollution and the brightness of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They get their name from the constellation Leo, from which the meteors appear to radiate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The best time to look is generally after midnight and before dawn, when Leo is higher in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another meteor shower arrives later in November, with the Leonids expected to peak around 17 November. The Leonids&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-598655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598655","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=598655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}