{"id":592221,"date":"2026-05-19T09:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592221\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:54:21","slug":"rare-blue-micro-moon-to-be-visible-in-suffolk-skies-in-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592221\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare blue micro moon to be visible in Suffolk skies in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The blue moon occurs around every two or three years and gets its name for being an extra 13th full moon in the year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Despite its name, the moon will not be the colour blue although it can appear to have a blue hue to it in rare circumstances.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This is caused by haze and dust particles in the atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/national\/24528947.rare-blue-supermoon-light-sky\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last blue moon<\/a> was in August 2024, according to Royal Greenwich Museums.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/26082212.needham-market-host-first-open-gardens-event-june\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">20 hidden gardens never seen before opening to the public<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will appear above the county on Sunday, May 31 and coincides with the micro moon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The micro moon happens when the moon reaches its furthest point from the Earth, which is around 250,000 miles away according to experts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The moon will be smaller and dimmer than usual although it may not be seem so to a naked eye.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Instead the best way to see the difference is with a photograph comparing it to a regular moon and a supermoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The next blue moons are not expected to appear in the skies until May 20, 2027, and December 31, 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blue moon occurs around every two or three years and gets its name for being an extra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592221","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\/592221","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=592221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}