{"id":23478,"date":"2020-04-23T04:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T04:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23478"},"modified":"2020-04-23T04:56:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T04:56:54","slug":"lyrid-meteor-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23478","title":{"rendered":"Lyrid Meteor Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2004\/ZGL-200422-0497_1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Earth&#8217;s annual Lyrid Meteor Shower peaked before dawn yesterday, as our fair planet plowed through debris from the tail of long-period comet Thatcher. In crisp, clear and moonless predawn skies over Brown County, Indiana this streak of vaporizing comet dust briefly shared a telephoto field of view with stars and nebulae along the Milky Way. Alpha star of the constellation Cygnus, Deneb lies near the bright meteor&#8217;s path along with the region&#8217;s dark interstellar clouds of dust and the recognizable glow of the North America nebula (NGC 7000). The meteor&#8217;s streak points back to the shower&#8217;s radiant, its apparent point of origin on the sky. That would be in the constellation Lyra, near bright star Vega and off the top edge of the frame. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap200423.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth&#8217;s annual Lyrid Meteor Shower peaked before dawn yesterday, as our fair planet plowed through debris from the tail of long-period comet Thatcher. In crisp, clear and moonless predawn skies <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23478\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-23478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23479,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23478\/revisions\/23479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}