{"id":68423,"date":"2018-08-12T05:21:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T23:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/everybody-should-see-this-perseids-light-up-bosnian-sky\/"},"modified":"2018-08-12T05:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T23:21:06","slug":"everybody-should-see-this-perseids-light-up-bosnian-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/everybody-should-see-this-perseids-light-up-bosnian-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everybody Should See This\u2019: Perseids Light up Bosnian Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meteor shower lit up the skies above eastern Bosnia Saturday night, giving star gazers a rare opportunity to see a display of shooting stars with the naked eye.   \u201cI think that everybody should see this,\u201d said Miralem Mehic, a Bosnian from an international group of star gazers who watched the light show at the Sand Pyramids, an area of naturally occurring sand columns, near the town of Foca.   The so-called Perseids meteor shower returns to the skies every August and are best viewed in the northern hemisphere in isolated areas where there is little light pollution.   They arise when the Earth passes through the debris of Comet 109P\/Swift-Tuttle, which was discovered in 1862.   Meteors are parts of rock and dust that hit the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, heat up and glow. Most vaporize as they descend, but some explode.   \u201cThis year the moon is young and will not obstruct the vision, so we will be able to see 100 \u2018shooting stars\u2019 an hour,\u201d Muhamed Muminovic, a member of the Sarajevo Orion astrological society, told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meteor shower lit up the skies above eastern Bosnia Saturday night, giving star gazers a rare opportunity to see a display of shooting stars with the naked eye. \u201cI think that everybody should see this,\u201d said Miralem Mehic, a Bosnian from an international group of star gazers who watched the light show at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}