{"id":456544,"date":"2026-03-04T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:27:11","slug":"worm-moon-to-be-visible-to-skygazers-in-the-uk-on-tuesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456544\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Worm moon\u2019 to be visible to skygazers in the UK on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second full moon of the year will delight skygazers across large parts of the UK on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The first full moon of spring, known as the worm moon, will be most visible from Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, with cloudier conditions expected in the south.<\/p>\n<p>The Moon appeared red in parts of Asia, Australia, North America and South America earlier on Tuesday as it coincided with a full lunar eclipse \u2013 also known as a blood moon.<\/p>\n<p>But the worm moon will lose the distinctive colouring as it comes into view across the UK as the eclipse reached totality at around 11.30am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ed Bloomer, senior astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said: \u201cIn the UK, we don\u2019t get to see the eclipse portion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s below the horizon for us. You get to see the Moon tonight, but you miss the bit where it reddens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The worm moon is thought to take its name from worms who escape from the soil to mate during the spring, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The blood moon appears red as the Moon lines up with Earth and the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Light escapes the eclipse and is scattered through Earth\u2019s atmosphere, causing the reddening effect.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bloomer said: \u201cThe Earth acts a little bit like a prism. Most light gets blocked out, but some light gets through, but it\u2019s been refracted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan Suri, chief operational meteorologist at the Met Office, said: \u201cThis evening, skies will be clearest across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be some, albeit less extensive and less reliable, clear skies over parts of southern England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInbetween, conditions will be cloudier, with some of this cloud spreading into Northern Ireland, northern England and southern and western Scotland during the early hours of Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second full moon of the year will delight skygazers across large parts of the UK on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456544","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\/456544","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=456544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}