{"id":225608,"date":"2026-01-03T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225608\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:01:08","slug":"from-eclipses-to-supermoons-seven-night-sky-spectacles-to-watch-for-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225608\/","title":{"rendered":"From eclipses to supermoons: Seven night sky spectacles to watch for in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

There will be three supermoons in 2026 starting with the first Moon of the new year on 3 January, known as the Wolf Moon. This will be the fourth supermoon in a row, following on from three we had at the end of 2025. <\/p>\n

The two other supermoons in 2026 are the Beaver Moon on 24 November followed by the Cold Moon on 23 December.<\/p>\n

Supermoons happen when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, appearing up to 15% brighter and 30% bigger than regular full Moons.<\/p>\n

Additionally there will be an extra full Moon on 31 May, known as a blue Moon – the name given to the second full Moon in a calendar month. <\/p>\n

We usually get 12 full Moons a year, but as this doesn’t quite match up with the lunar cycle roughly every two and half years we get an additional full Moon. As it only happens once every few years, it is where we get the expression ‘once in a blue Moon’ from.<\/p>\n

If you want to take a picture make sure you turn off the flash on your phone, activate night mode and use ambient light. Oh, and check the BBC Weather forecast.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be three supermoons in 2026 starting with the first Moon of the new year on 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-225608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}