{"id":40461,"date":"2024-08-14T03:41:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T03:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/in-pictures-the-perseid-meteor-shower\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T03:41:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T03:41:34","slug":"in-pictures-the-perseid-meteor-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/in-pictures-the-perseid-meteor-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: The Perseid meteor shower"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Every August, the Perseid meteor shower lights up the night sky with a spectacular display of meteors. <\/p>\n

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A meteor streaks above massive stone sculptures at the archaeological site of Mount Nemrut in Adiaman, south-east Turkey<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A member of an astronomical society sits by his cameras and watches the sky, waiting to see meteors over the lake of Kozjak in North Macedonia<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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This layered image blending 43 photos creates a captivating composite of celestial activity over Stonehenge in Wiltshire<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A meteor streaks through the night sky behind St Mark’s Tower, a 17th century coastal fortification in Malta<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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This long exposure picture shows a meteor streaking as satellites cross the night sky over a monastery in the village of Wigry in Poland<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A meteor shoots across the sky high above the Jodrell Bank radio telescope in Cheshire<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Some observers in northern regions were lucky to have a display of the Northern Lights as well as seeing meteors. This picture was taken near Kendal in Cumbria<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Perseid meteor shower occurs over several nights in mid-August, peaking on 11 August. This very bright meteor was captured by camera in Haputale, Sri Lanka last week.<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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People watch the sunrise the morning after the Perseid meteor shower at the archaeological site on Mount Nemrut in Turkey<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Every August, the Perseid meteor shower lights up the night sky with a spectacular display of meteors. Here is a gallery of some of the best images from around the world Getty Images A meteor streaks above massive stone sculptures at the archaeological site of Mount Nemrut in Adiaman, south-east Turkey EPA A member of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[4511,14680,135,13108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40463,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40461\/revisions\/40463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}