{"id":736573,"date":"2026-08-13T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736573\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:30:10","slug":"photos-show-rare-solar-eclipse-in-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736573\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos show rare solar eclipse in Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands turned out across Yorkshire on Wednesday evening to catch a glimpse of the most significant solar eclipse since the turn of the millenium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those watching the astronomical phenomenon were treated to a partial eclipse, which peaked shortly after 19:00 BST, when many saw more than 90% of the sun covered by the moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An eclipse happens when the sun, moon and earth are in alignment. The moon casts a shadow on the earth as it passes between the two, completely or partially blocking out the sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here are some of the best pictures from across Yorkshire submitted to BBC Weather Watchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands turned out across Yorkshire on Wednesday evening to catch a glimpse of the most significant solar eclipse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736573","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\/736573","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=736573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}