{"id":490364,"date":"2026-06-09T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490364\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:20:08","slug":"venus-and-jupiter-shine-bright-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490364\/","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":421175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-490364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490364","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=490364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}