{"id":320041,"date":"2026-08-13T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320041\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:30:10","slug":"news-12-bronx-venus-shines-brightest-as-it-reaches-a-prime-viewing-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320041\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Venus Shines Brightest As It Reaches A Prime Viewing Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Venus takes center stage this month.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It will be high in the evening sky and shining brightly this weekend.  You might have seen Venus already &#8211; it\u2019s the brightest object in the night sky behind the full moon. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The second planet from the Sun will be at greatest elongation Aug. 14-15.<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/dd0ecd17-2369-462c-98d4-1fadd3061c7e.png\"   alt=\"dd0ecd17-2369-462c-98d4-1fadd3061c7e.png\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This means that Venus will be the farthest from the Sun and easily visible after sunset.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It will shine at magnitude -4.3, so it\u2019s easily seen with the unaided eye.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Be sure to look for the very thin new crescent moon hanging near Venus this Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/39ca581b-cfd5-4557-98b3-b3c9b3b63ea5.png\"   alt=\"39ca581b-cfd5-4557-98b3-b3c9b3b63ea5.png\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Venus will be visible throughout the rest of the summer and into the fall.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Starting in November, Venus will go from an \u201cevening star\u201d to a \u201cmorning star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The planet will be at western elongation in early January, when it will be best viewed in the pre-dawn sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus takes center stage this month. It will be high in the evening sky and shining brightly this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-320041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}