{"id":18629,"date":"2019-05-03T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18629"},"modified":"2019-05-02T23:45:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T03:45:39","slug":"may-2019-night-sky-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18629","title":{"rendered":"May 2019 night sky highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A survey of the night sky for May from NASA JPL:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>What&#8217;s up in the May sky? A meteor shower produced by debris from Halley&#8217;s Comet, asteroids named after dinosaurs and a &#8220;blue moon&#8221; on May 18th. Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What&#8217;s Up, along with still images from the video and the video transcript are available at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/resources\/2420\/whats-up-may-2019-skywatching-from-nasa\/\"><em>https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VoivZE4xLEw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** Sky &amp; Telescope provides another view of the May sky: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/sky-tour-podcast-may-2019\/#.XMm69m2IR2A.twitter\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 2019: The Stars of Spring &#8211; Sky &amp; Telescope<\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-18629-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019.05.01_SkyTour.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019.05.01_SkyTour.mp3\">https:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019.05.01_SkyTour.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1984819194\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1984819194&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=142792e667be98282615ab82071b8a14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Brief Answers to the Big Questions &#8211; Stephen Hawking<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1984819194\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1984819194&amp;asins=1984819194&amp;linkId=48f64e1d2a24b01a529558b553d1d94a&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey of the night sky for May from NASA JPL: What&#8217;s up in the May sky? A meteor shower produced by debris from Halley&#8217;s Comet, asteroids named after dinosaurs and a &#8220;blue moon&#8221; on May 18th. Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What&#8217;s Up, along with still images from the video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 2019 night sky highlights<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4Qt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27667,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=27667","url_meta":{"origin":18629,"position":0},"title":"Night sky highlights for November 2025","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the night sky this month, November 2025. 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