{"id":335125,"date":"2025-12-25T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335125\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:41:07","slug":"the-international-space-station-at-christmas-and-how-to-look-out-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335125\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Space Station at Christmas and how to look out for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ISS isn\u2019t visible every night, and sightings will only be for a few minutes when it\u2019s overhead. Sighting opportunities can range from several in a week to once a month, but there should be plenty of chances to spot the ISS before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>To help you work out when it&#8217;s visible over the festive period where you live  &#8211; have a look at our guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/articles\/zq89dp3\" class=\"ssrcss-1w74xcy-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">how to spot the International Space Station<\/a> with top tips on when, where and how you can spot the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>You can also use <a href=\"https:\/\/spotthestation.nasa.gov\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1w74xcy-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA&#8217;s online tool<\/a> to find out when the ISS can be seen from wherever you are. They even offer a downloadable app.<\/p>\n<p>Excitingly &#8211; if you don&#8217;t mind a very early start to Christmas Day &#8211; the ISS will be visible above the UK (weather permitting) at 05:56 for around 4 minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Weather has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/articles\/cn0kg15nlppo\" class=\"ssrcss-1w74xcy-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this guide to more celestial events over December<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ISS isn\u2019t visible every night, and sightings will only be for a few minutes when it\u2019s overhead.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-335125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335125","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=335125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}