{"id":828675,"date":"2026-08-28T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828675\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:14:10","slug":"photos-augusts-full-moon-and-partial-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828675\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: August\u2019s full moon and partial lunar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August\u2019s full moon wasn\u2019t the only spectacle in the night sky Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The full moon, nicknamed the sturgeon moon, also created a partial lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth aligns between the sun and the moon, causing the Earth\u2019s shadow, or umbra, to darken the moon.<\/p>\n<p>While the event was only a partial lunar eclipse, Earth\u2019s shadow covered 96% of the moon\u2019s bright, visible surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August\u2019s full moon wasn\u2019t the only spectacle in the night sky Thursday night. The full moon, nicknamed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-828675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}