{"id":227542,"date":"2026-01-04T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227542\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:15:09","slug":"wolf-moon-lights-up-skies-across-south-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227542\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Moon lights up skies across south of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The first full moon of 2026 has lit up skies across the south of England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It was the fourth supermoon in a row, following October&#8217;s Harvest Moon, November&#8217;s Beaver Moon and the Cold Moon in December. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The January moon is known in the Northern Hemisphere as the Wolf Moon, coming at a time of the year when it was believed wolves howled more due to there being less food around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">BBC Weather Watchers have been capturing images of the Wolf Moon as it reached its peak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It is also sometimes called the Old Moon or Ice Moon and is referred to as a supermoon because it looks larger. This caused by its elliptical orbit bringing it closer to the Earth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">There will not be another chance to see a moon so large and bright until November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first full moon of 2026 has lit up skies across the south of England. It was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-227542","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\/227542","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=227542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}