{"id":613743,"date":"2026-05-31T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613743\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:47:30","slug":"watch-the-blue-micromoon-rise-online-tonight-astronomers-announce-free-livestream-of-the-full-moon-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613743\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Blue Micromoon rise online tonight. Astronomers announce free livestream of the full Moon rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of 31st May 2026, the full Moon will rise, marking the second full Moon of the month and making it a &#8216;Blue Moon&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This is also a &#8216;micromoon&#8217; because the Moon reaches will become full just before it reaches the farthest distance from Earth in its orbit.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re clouded out or are otherwise unable to see this &#8216;Blue Micromoon&#8217;, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualtelescope.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Virtual Telescope Project<\/a> has announced it will film and broadcast views of the full Moon live from Manciano, Italy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/blue-moon.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Moon by Sanja Baljkas \/ Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-156238\"\/>Sanja Baljkas \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The astronomers say their livestream will include archival images of the Moon above some of Rome\u2019s most iconic monuments.<\/p>\n<p>The livestream of the Blue Micromoon begins on 31 May 2026 at 01:30 UTC and will be filmed using the team&#8217;s telescopes in Manciano.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the livestream below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the evening of 31st May 2026, the full Moon will rise, marking the second full Moon of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613743","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\/613743","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=613743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}