{"id":583056,"date":"2026-08-28T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/583056\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:24:14","slug":"photos-moon-appears-orange-due-to-partial-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/583056\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Moon appears orange due to partial lunar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/78cb8817-fb44-409a-9350-33524a79933c_1694533082.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Sydney Hartman\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PHOTOS: Moon appears orange due to partial lunar eclipse<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/78cb8817-fb44-409a-9350-33524a79933c_1694533082.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Sydney Hartman\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The moon appeared reddish-orange late Thursday night and into Friday morning during a partial lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">See a slideshow of photos of the moon in the video player above.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">About 96% of the moon passed through Earth\u2019s umbra, falling just short of a total lunar eclipse, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The reddish-orange appearance is commonly referred to as a &#8220;blood moon.&#8221;   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Moon appears orange due to partial lunar eclipse The moon appeared reddish-orange late Thursday night and into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4645,2415,287022,7752,3146,287043,5676,86318,287023,8036,287045,3323,287044,111,139,32067,69,167859,271297,12663,287046,287047,287049,287048,147,55031,68462,262714,1932,162241,38580,247483],"class_list":["post-583056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-blood-moon","tag-blood-moon-photos","tag-celestial-event","tag-earth","tag-earths-umbra","tag-eclipse","tag-friday-morning","tag-lunar-eclipse-photos","tag-moon","tag-moon-appearance","tag-nasa","tag-nasa-eclipse","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-night-sky","tag-nz","tag-partial-eclipse","tag-partial-lunar-eclipse","tag-photo","tag-red-moon","tag-reddish-orange","tag-reddish-orange-appearance","tag-reddish-orange-late-thursday-night","tag-science","tag-shnd","tag-slideshow","tag-thursday-night","tag-total-lunar-eclipse","tag-umbra","tag-video-player","tag-wjcl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583056","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=583056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}