{"id":87882,"date":"2019-02-18T10:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/biggest-supermoon-of-the-year-is-here-this-week"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:42:55","slug":"biggest-supermoon-of-the-year-is-here-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/biggest-supermoon-of-the-year-is-here-this-week","title":{"rendered":"Biggest supermoon of the year is here this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biggest-supermoon-of-the-year-is-here-this-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stargazers will get a close-up look at Earth\u2019s natural satellite this week thanks to the brightest supermoon event of the year.<\/p>\n<p>A supermoon phenomenon occurs when a full moon, on its oval-shaped orbit, is at its closest to us, known as perigee, which is about 356,000 kilometres as measured from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>It takes place when the moon\u2019s orbit brings it to the closest point to Earth while at the same time bathed in sunlight, giving the moon its bright appearance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/science\/space\/supermoon-set-to-light-up-the-sky-this-week\/news-story\/5d1e4a1970950d1c6d1a8c967f190126\">https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/science\/space\/supermoon-s...967f190126<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stargazers will get a close-up look at Earth\u2019s natural satellite this week thanks to the brightest supermoon event of the year. A supermoon phenomenon occurs when a full moon, on its oval-shaped orbit, is at its closest to us, known as perigee, which is about 356,000 kilometres as measured from the centre of the Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}