{"id":613390,"date":"2026-09-27T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613390\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:32:12","slug":"saturn-to-appear-near-moon-in-qatars-night-sky-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613390\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn to appear near Moon in Qatar\u2019s night sky today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doha, Qatar: Skywatchers will witness Saturn appearing close to the Moon today, Sunday, September 27, 2026, at around 5:50pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Qatar House Calendar in a social media post said the event will offer individuals an opportunity to observe the two celestial bodies together with the naked eye.<\/p>\n<p>The Moon and Saturn will be visible above the eastern horizon from around 5:50pm and will remain visible through the night and into the early hours of Monday, September 28.<\/p>\n<p>Saturn is the second-largest planet in the solar system and is known for its prominent rings, which can be observed in greater detail using astronomical equipment such as telescopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doha, Qatar: Skywatchers will witness Saturn appearing close to the Moon today, Sunday, September 27, 2026, at around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,7917,147,392,33763],"class_list":["post-613390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-qatar","tag-science","tag-space","tag-the-peninsula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613390","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=613390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}