{"id":60873,"date":"2025-05-24T12:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60873"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:39:13","slug":"moon-and-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60873","title":{"rendered":"Moon And Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-612.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-612.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-612-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-612-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Set your alarm for about 90 minutes before sunrise this Friday, as a stunning celestial display awaits early risers. If skies are clear, look east for a breathtaking pairing of the crescent moon and Venus. The moon, only 16% illuminated, will appear thin and silver, while Venus, shining brilliantly at magnitude -4.5, will hover to its lower left. Though about 7 degrees apart\u2014nearly the width of your fist at arm\u2019s length\u2014their brightness makes them an unforgettable sight. This illusion highlights their distance: Venus is 259 times farther than the moon. Venus continues rising higher until mid-summer, peaking in visibility by July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set your alarm for about 90 minutes before sunrise this Friday, as a stunning celestial display awaits early risers. If skies are clear, look east for a breathtaking pairing of the crescent moon and Venus. The moon, only 16% illuminated, will appear thin and silver, while Venus, shining brilliantly at magnitude -4.5, will hover to its lower left. Though about 7 degrees apart\u2014nearly the width of your fist at arm\u2019s length\u2014their brightness makes them an unforgettable sight. This illusion highlights their distance: Venus is 259 times farther than the moon. Venus continues rising higher until mid-summer, peaking in visibility by July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-613.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-613.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-613-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-613-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60726\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set your alarm for about 90 minutes before sunrise this Friday, as a stunning celestial display awaits early risers. If skies are clear, look east for a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60876,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60873\/revisions\/60876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}