{"id":834187,"date":"2026-05-31T08:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/834187\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:19:25","slug":"blue-moon-illuminates-skyline-as-it-rises-over-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/834187\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Blue Moon&#8217; Illuminates Skyline as It Rises Over NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Orange hues illuminated New York City on Saturday evening, May 30, as a \u201c<a data-ylk=\"slk:rare Blue Moon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/stargazing\/the-blue-moon-rises-tonight-where-and-when-to-see-the-second-full-moon-of-may\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">rare Blue Moon<\/a>\u201d rose over the skyline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mesmerizing timelapse footage captured by Mike Carroll shows the moon rising behind the Empire State Building and nearby skyscrapers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI planned this Blue Moon alignment with the iconic Empire State Building and the NYC skyline from over 7 miles away! My vantage point was from Bergen County, New Jersey,\u201d Carroll told Storyful. \u201cIt was an amazing sight to see and I even witnessed a plane flying through the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a data-ylk=\"slk:Space.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/stargazing\/the-blue-moon-rises-tonight-where-and-when-to-see-the-second-full-moon-of-may\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Space.com<\/a>, the Blue Moon was expected to reach peak illumination at 4:45 am on May 31, and could first be observed as it rose above the horizon around sunset on May 30. Credit: Mike Carroll via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange hues illuminated New York City on Saturday evening, May 30, as a \u201crare Blue Moon\u201d rose over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":834188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,72013,51717,342139,342141,401,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,342140,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-834187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-bergen-county","tag-blue-moon","tag-mike-carroll","tag-nearby-skyscrapers","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-the-blue-moon","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116668214090722908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}