{"id":926203,"date":"2026-04-29T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/926203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:17:16","slug":"apod-2026-april-29-the-moon-venus-and-the-pleiades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/926203\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 April 29 \u2013 The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades"},"content":{"rendered":"

APOD: 2026 April 29 \u2013 The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades<\/p>\n

Discover the cosmos!<\/a>
\nEach day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.\n<\/p>\n

2026 April 29
\n

\n\"The<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades <\/b>
Image Credit & Copyright: <\/b>
\nGianni Tumino<\/a>
\n
Text:<\/b>
\nKeighley Rockcliffe<\/a>
\n(NASA<\/a>
\nGSFC<\/a>,
\nUMBC CSST<\/a>,
\nCRESST II<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Explanation: <\/b> <\/p>\n

No, Earth did not recently acquire six more moons! <\/p>\n

Today\u2019s APOD<\/a>
\nis a combination of images following the Moon, Venus, and
\nthe Pleiades<\/a>
\nacross a southern Sicilian sky
\nas twilight turned to evening on April 19.<\/p>\n

From 2023 to 2029, the Pleiades’ and the Moon
\n\u201cvisit<\/a>”
\neach other once per month due to the Pleiades’ location in
\nthe ecliptic plane<\/a>.
\nApril 2026 saw the celestial alignment of their visit with
\nVenus<\/a>. <\/p>\n

About six stars in the Pleiades cluster
\n(Messier 45<\/a>)
\nare typically visible with the unaided eye. Due to the cluster\u2019s visibility across the world, there are many myths and legends across cultures associated with the Pleiades.
\nThe Haudenosaunee people<\/a>
\nof North America,
\nfor example<\/a>,
\nsay that seven boys danced so enthusiastically that they lifted off into the sky.
\nAstronomers recently found thousands more Pleiades members<\/a>,
\nshowing that after thousands of years of gazing upon this cluster, there is yet more to learn about the Pleiades.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s picture: <\/b>Waves on Titan<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n Authors & editors: <\/b>
\nRobert Nemiroff<\/a>
\n(MTU<\/a>) &
\nJerry Bonnell<\/a> (UMCP<\/a>)
NASA Official: <\/b> Amber Straughn
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&<\/b> Michigan Tech. U.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 April 29 \u2013 The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades Discover the cosmos! Each day a different…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3844],"tags":[1497,103195,70,413,16,15,20630],"class_list":["post-926203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-moon","tag-pleiades","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-venus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116487719919360268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}