{"id":554599,"date":"2026-08-01T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554599\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:39:10","slug":"apod-2026-august-1-buck-moon-and-belt-of-venus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554599\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 August 1 \u2013 Buck Moon and Belt of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/moon-phases\/july-full-moon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Buck Moon<\/a> is a traditional name for the full moon of July. In this colorful Adriatic sea and skyscape captured on July 28 from Krk Island along the coast of Croatia, a full Buck Moon is just rising over distant mountains. Since a full moon rises as the Sun sets, <a href=\"https:\/\/nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov\/media\/documents\/resources\/EarthShadow3.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Earth&#8217;s shadow<\/a> also rises in the twilight scene, a diffuse gray band extending above the mountainous southeastern horizon. Above Earth&#8217;s shadow band is the pinkish <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2006-june-15-gordel-van-venus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antitwilight arch<\/a>. That subtly tinted band of backscattered sunlight is more widely known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belt_of_Venus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belt of Venus<\/a>. But as it shares the eastern horizon with the atmospheric shadow of Earth and Belt of Venus, this full Buck Moon seems to set the stage for the New Moon to come. The New Moon of August 12 will cast its own shadow on planet Earth in a much anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-sets-coverage-for-august-northern-hemisphere-total-solar-eclipse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">total solar eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap260802.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">f<\/a>ire and rainbow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: The Buck Moon is a traditional name for the full moon of July. In this colorful Adriatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[271739,111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-554599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554599","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=554599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}