{"id":279763,"date":"2025-11-08T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/279763\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:54:09","slug":"space-debris-seen-over-the-first-coast-saturday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/279763\/","title":{"rendered":"Space debris seen over the First Coast Saturday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Early risers got a glimpse of a celestial treat over the First Coast Saturday morning around 6:17 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A satellite re-entered Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, broke into many pieces, and burned up upon entry.<\/p>\n<p>This is called space junk. Satellites are designed to break apart and burn up in the atmosphere when they&#8217;re done orbiting the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Many online thought what they saw was a rocket launch or meteor. That was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>A rocket launch was scheduled for this morning, but the launch was scrubbed due to poor weather in the booster recovery area.<\/p>\n<p>The Taurids meteor shower is currently ongoing, but it was too bright and scattered into too many pieces to be a meteor.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e646f825-e1b0-4e5a-b1f9-182256d3ed0e_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e646f825-e1b0-4e5a-b1f9-182256d3ed0e_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e86dcc9d-08df-4458-8d1a-c8c0a4670a80_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e86dcc9d-08df-4458-8d1a-c8c0a4670a80_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Early risers got a glimpse of a celestial treat over the First Coast Saturday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-279763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}