{"id":597735,"date":"2026-04-21T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597735\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:51:08","slug":"heads-up-lyrid-meteor-shower-begins-its-annual-peak-tuesday-night-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597735\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads up! Lyrid meteor shower begins its annual peak Tuesday night :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stargazers have certain dates circled on their calendar each year. <\/p>\n

One of those is right now, and it’s for the Lyrid meteor shower.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As with any meteor shower, one of the complicating factors is misinformation. You’ll often see misleading estimates about the meteors-per-hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not trying to be a buzzkill – you’re just not going to see 100 per hour.<\/p>\n

That said, Tuesday night is when this shower peaks. You might be able to see some streaking across the sky for the next several days, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In order to get a clearer picture of this year’s shower, we spoke with Tony Rice, an ambassador to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a frequent writer for WRAL.com.<\/p>\n

He tells us that the shower peaks around and after 10 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, 2026. <\/p>\n

He suggests looking toward the east under a dark sky. Avoid light pollution as best as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As for how many you could\u00a0see? Rice says it’s possible to see about 10 meteors per hour.<\/p>\n

If you happen to get any pictures or videos of a shooting star during the Lyrids, you can send that our way to ReportIt.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stargazers have certain dates circled on their calendar each year. One of those is right now, and it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6626,7117,718,2256,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-597735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-astronomy","9":"tag-meteor-shower","10":"tag-nasa","11":"tag-north-carolina","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597735","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=597735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}