{"id":442842,"date":"2026-02-24T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442842\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:48:19","slug":"six-planets-to-be-visible-in-night-sky-above-suffolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/442842\/","title":{"rendered":"Six planets to be visible in night sky above Suffolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Six planets will be visible in the night sky above the county at the end of February in what is known as the parade of planets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The event got its name due to the planets seeming to appear in a straight line.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Royal Museums Greenwich said Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune will all be visible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25848497.dedham-vale-hamlet-named-englands-first-dark-sky-community\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Suffolk home to only place in England where you can truly see the stars<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Neptune are expected to be visible in the west close to the horizon just after the Sun sets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Uranus will be higher in the sky in the constellation of Taurus and will set around midnight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jupiter will be the easiest to find and will be a bright point of light visible to the naked eye, even in areas with higher light pollution.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Experts say it would be easier to see all six planets with the use of a telescope.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The best conditions for stargazing are away from street lights and sources of light pollution, such as the Suffolk coast or Dedham Vale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six planets will be visible in the night sky above the county at the end of February in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-442842","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\/442842","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=442842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}