{"id":311099,"date":"2026-03-03T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311099\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:57:10","slug":"blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-lights-up-skies-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311099\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood moon lunar eclipse lights up skies around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For some parts of the world, the full Moon was visible as it underwent a total lunar eclipse, becoming what is known as a Blood Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth moves directly between the Sun and Moon, casting a shadow onto the Moon&#8217;s surface. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Moon appears to turn a rusty red during a total lunar eclipse because Earth&#8217;s atmosphere filters and bends sunlight so that only the red wavelengths reach and illuminate it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sky watchers in North America, South America, East Asia, and Australia &#8211; almost a third of the world&#8217;s population &#8211; were able to see the full eclipse on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For some parts of the world, the full Moon was visible as it underwent a total lunar eclipse,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-311099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}