{"id":3059,"date":"2025-09-22T03:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:09:11","slug":"fireflies-meteors-and-milky-way-at-sierra-de-organos-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/fireflies-meteors-and-milky-way-at-sierra-de-organos-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireflies, Meteors and Milky Way at Sierra de Organos National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Source: Daniel Korona, NASA<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This photograph is NASA\u2019s Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 2nd, 2025. It was photographed on July 29th and 30th at Mexico’s Sierra de Organos National Park (Parque Nacional Sierra de \u00d3rganos<\/em>) in Zacatecas state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is NASA’s explanation<\/a>: “Taken on July 29 and July 30, a registered and stacked series of exposures creates this dreamlike\u00a0view of a\u00a0northern summer night. Multiple firefly flashes streak across the foreground as the luminous Milky Way arcs above the horizon in the Sierra de \u00d3rganos national park of central Mexico. The collection of bright streaks aligned across the sky toward the upper left in the timelapse image are Delta Aquariid meteors. Currently active, the annual Delta Aquariid meteor shower shares August nights though, overlapping with the better-known Perseid meteor shower. \u00a0This year that makes post-midnight, mostly moonless skies in early August very popular with late night skygazers. How can you tell a Delta Aquariid from a Perseid meteor? The streaks of Perseid meteors can be traced back to an apparent radiant in the constellation Perseus. Delta Aquariids appear to emerge from the more southerly constellation Aquarius, beyond the top left of this frame. Of course, the bioluminescent flashes of fireflies are common too on these northern summer nights. But how can you tell a firefly from a meteor? Just try to catch one.”<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are three daytime photos from the Sierra de Organos National Park:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source : Tomas Esparza<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Source: Tomas Esparza<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Source: Tomas Esparza<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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This photograph is NASA\u2019s Astronomy Picture of the Day for August 2nd, 2025. It was photographed on July 29th and 30th at Mexico’s Sierra de Organos National Park (Parque Nacional Sierra de \u00d3rganos) in Zacatecas state. Here is NASA’s explanation: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,24],"tags":[278,642,560,279,643,43],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-tourism","category-wildlife","tag-astronomy","tag-fireflies","tag-meteors","tag-nasa","tag-sierra-de-organos-national-park","tag-zacatecas-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}