{"id":67092,"date":"2025-10-09T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67092\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:08:09","slug":"rare-supermoon-illuminates-sky-over-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/67092\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare supermoon illuminates sky over Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Sky-watchers across Jersey were treated to a supermoon on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A supermoon appears brighter and larger than other full moons in the evening sky and occurs when the Moon is at its closest point to the Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The term was first coined in 1979 by astrologer Richard Nolle and Tuesday&#8217;s occurrence was the first time it happened since November 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">This supermoon is known by two names &#8211; the Hunter&#8217;s Moon and the Harvest Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">It is referred to as the Hunter&#8217;s Moon because as the first full moon in October, it was a time when historically preparations were made for winter in the northern hemisphere, with people hunting and preserving meats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">It is also known as the Harvest Moon, as it rises closest to the autumn equinox on 22 September, reflecting a time when farmers would use the moon&#8217;s brightness to collect crops in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky-watchers across Jersey were treated to a supermoon on Tuesday night. A supermoon appears brighter and larger than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-67092","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\/67092","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=67092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}