{"id":187516,"date":"2025-10-09T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/187516\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:32:12","slug":"rare-supermoon-illuminates-sky-over-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/187516\/","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":187517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-187516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}