{"id":44597,"date":"2026-07-15T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/?post_type=event&#038;p=44597"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:23:29","slug":"celebrate-the-stars-perseid-meteor-shower-star-party","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/events\/celebrate-the-stars-perseid-meteor-shower-star-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Stars: Perseid Meteor Shower Star Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/promo\/share-perseid-meteor-shower-star-party-with-your-community\/\">Share our event flyer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group important-dates-block\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group date-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group date-insert\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8:00 p.m.\u201311:00 p.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Planetarium Pilots<\/strong><br><br>Step up to the controls and take the Planetarium dome for a spin to explore the cosmos! Learn about our celestial neighbors or travel to the furthest reaches of our universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Nighttime Moths with Dr. Signe White<\/strong><\/strong><br><br>Why are moths nocturnal and why do they keep flying toward our lights? Come explore the answers to these questions, test your skills with Moth or Myth?, discover the surprising ways moths use stars to navigate at night, and get an up-close look at real specimens and their dazzling wing scales under magnification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong>Star Activity: Wish Upon a Star<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br><br>Flex your creativity and design your own star to add to our growing Lawrence Galaxy. Write your wish and hang your star alongside others on display! What will you wish for?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group date-insert\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8:45 p.m.\u20139:15 p.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Star Talk With Dr. Bryan Mendez<\/strong><\/strong><br><br>Join us in the Forces that Shape the Bay outdoor exhibit near the Sun Stones II sculpture where UC Berkeley astronomer Dr. Bryan Mendez will give you a tour of the night sky as the Sun sets and the stars come out. Dr. Mendez will share points of interest in the summer sky, share scientific and cultural traditions of the stars and planets we can see, and explain what a meteor shower is and what we might expect to see throughout the night.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group date-insert\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9:30 p.m.\u201310:30 p.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong>Ohlone Sky Science<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br><br>Ohlone people in the East Bay have always looked up to the night sky and observed a living universe that communicates with us here on Earth. Join \u2018ottoy Initiative leaders Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino, who will share a glimpse of Ohlone knowledge of \u2018o\u0161\u0161ekma\u2014the stars above us.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate the stars and witness one of the most spectacular celestial events of the year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":44602,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44597","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-the-lawrence","category-featured-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/44597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/44597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44689,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/44597\/revisions\/44689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencehallofscience.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}