The first thing that strikes me is the darkness. I can’t see any stars – only clouds.<\/p>\n
Four-and-a-half hours later, at 22:30, the stars finally emerge, and it is breathtaking. <\/p>\n
The stars extend as far as the eye can see, in every direction. <\/p>\n
I’m with Si\u00e2n and James Harrison, two avid star fans who’ve travelled from Cardiff to the tiny hamlet of Gogoyan, in the sweeping Ceredigion countryside in west Wales.<\/p>\n
We’re here to immerse ourselves in the night sky with the help of a guide.<\/p>\n
Lying on a blanket spread out on the ground, we gaze up at Jupiter, one of the brightest planets in the sky.<\/p>\n
Poiting with a green laser which extends into the night sky, Dafydd Wyn Morgan, owner of astrotourism company Serydda, shows us three stars in a line, telling us he loves Orion’s Belt.<\/p>\n
James chimes in, saying it’s his favourite constellation, as the region surrounding it is a part of space where stars are constantly being born.<\/p>\n
“I’ll focus on something and it’ll be 150 million light years away,” James says. “I can’t quantify that.”<\/p>\n
A sense of calm washes over me. I feel like I’m looking at the same sky my ancestors would have seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first thing that strikes me is the darkness. I can’t see any stars – only clouds. Four-and-a-half…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451262","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\/451262","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=451262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}