{"id":724933,"date":"2026-06-09T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:17:09","slug":"venus-and-jupiter-shine-bright-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724933\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus and Jupiter shine bright tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stargazers are being encouraged to look to the west after sunset this evening as Venus and Jupiter appear exceptionally close together in Irish skies.<\/p>\n<p>The event \u2013 known as a conjunction \u2013 will see the two brightest planets in the night sky shining side by side.<\/p>\n<p>David Moore from Astronomy Ireland says it\u2019s likely to be one of the most spectacular celestial displays in years\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/planets.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/planets.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stargazers are being encouraged to look to the west after sunset this evening as Venus and Jupiter appear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-724933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}