{"id":543145,"date":"2026-07-10T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543145\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:31:09","slug":"waxing-gibbous-moon-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543145\/","title":{"rendered":"Waxing Gibbous Moon &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/moon\/moon-phases\/#hds-sidebar-nav-6\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">waxing gibbous<\/a> moon is nestled in the darkness of space in this June 26, 2026, image from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station<\/a>. The space station was 264 miles above the Indian Ocean southeast of Madagascar at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The waxing gibbous phase comes before the full moon phase. During this time, the Moon appears brighter in the night sky to viewers on Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The waxing gibbous moon is nestled in the darkness of space in this June 26, 2026, image from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[14673,61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-543145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-earths-moon","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543145","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=543145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}