{"id":735953,"date":"2026-08-12T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735953\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:00:09","slug":"east-midlands-treated-to-best-solar-eclipse-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735953\/","title":{"rendered":"East Midlands treated to best solar eclipse in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People across the East Midlands looked to the sky on Wednesday evening as the UK was treated to its fullest solar eclipse since 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was visible across the region, with about 90% of the Sun&#8217;s disc covered by the Moon, depending on your location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A solar eclipse happens when the Earth, Moon and the Sun align &#8211; or almost align. The Moon sits between the Earth and the Sun, blocking the amount of light we receive from our star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Weather Watchers from across the East Midlands have shared their photos with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People across the East Midlands looked to the sky on Wednesday evening as the UK was treated to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735953","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\/735953","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=735953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}