{"id":493556,"date":"2026-05-20T04:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/493556\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:45:12","slug":"venus-and-moon-together-in-rare-celestial-event-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/493556\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus and moon together in rare celestial event | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"image\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1784\" height=\"1162\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(NASA\/Bill Ingalls via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Dean Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stargazers were treated to a striking celestial pairing on Monday evening as the <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2026\/04\/29\/artist-inspired-by-artemis-ii-helps-women-walk-on-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Moon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2026\/02\/09\/evidence-of-volcanic-activity-on-venus-confirmed-for-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Venus<\/a> appeared close together in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The conjunction was visible shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2025\/06\/23\/dolphin-captured-swimming-in-front-of-stunning-summer-sunset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sunset<\/a>, with the two objects shining low in the western sky.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"image\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(NASA\/Bill Ingalls via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n<p>One apt view of the spectacle was from the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The display was visible across parts of the UK and other regions where the sky was clear and the western horizon remained unobstructed.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"image\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1192\" height=\"1738\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>(NASA\/Bill Ingalls via SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>                                    By Talker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(NASA\/Bill Ingalls via SWNS) By Talker By Dean Murray Stargazers were treated to a striking celestial pairing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[48418,18,19,17,133],"class_list":["post-493556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-dean-murray","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116605087156958296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}