{"id":18676,"date":"2018-01-03T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/quadrantid-meteors-reach-their-peak-upstaged-by-a-supermoons-afterglow\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:38:07","slug":"quadrantid-meteors-reach-their-peak-upstaged-by-a-supermoons-afterglow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/quadrantid-meteors-reach-their-peak-upstaged-by-a-supermoons-afterglow\/","title":{"rendered":"Quadrantid meteors reach their peak, upstaged by a supermoon\u2019s afterglow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_387616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-387616\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-387616\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/180103-quadrantids-630x394.jpg\" alt=\"Quadrantid\" width=\"630\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/180103-quadrantids-630x394.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/180103-quadrantids.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-387616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Quadrantid fireball lights up the sky. (Jimmy Westlake Photo via NASA \/ Colorado Mountain College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> The good news is that the annual Quadrantid meteor shower is reaching its peak tonight with relatively clear skies in the forecast for Western Washington. The bad news? It\u2019ll be hard to spot shooting stars, due to the night-long glare from a moon that\u2019s just past its super-sized full phase. But if the skies over Seattle are clear at 7:12 a.m. PT Thursday, there\u2019s a six-minute space station pass that\u2019s worth getting up to see. For more about this year\u2019s \u201cmoon-out\u201d and the Quadrantids, check out Sky &amp; Telescope\u2019s preview.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Quadrantid Meteors and a Super Blue Blood-Moon  in Jan. 2018 Skywatching\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JMI3zqGGxf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Quadrantid fireball lights up the sky. (Jimmy Westlake Photo via NASA \/ Colorado Mountain College) News Brief: The good news is that the annual Quadrantid meteor shower is reaching its peak tonight with relatively clear skies in the forecast for Western Washington. The bad news? It\u2019ll be hard to spot shooting stars, due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4919,5285],"class_list":["post-18676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-meteor-showers","tag-quadrantids"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}