{"id":23546,"date":"2020-05-29T04:57:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23546"},"modified":"2020-05-29T04:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T04:57:19","slug":"mercury-meets-crescent-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23546","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Meets Crescent Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2005\/Venere-e-Mercurio-tra-gli-Eucalipti1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>That&#8217;s not a bright star and crescent Moon caught between branches of a eucalyptus tree. It&#8217;s Venus in a crescent phase and Mercury. Near the western horizon after sunset, the two inner planets closely shared this telescopic field of view on May 22, seen from a balcony in Civitavecchia, Italy. Venus, the very bright celestial beacon, is wandering lower into the evening twilight. It grows larger in apparent size and shows a thinner crescent as it heads toward its inferior conjunction, positioned between Earth and Sun on June 3. Mercury, in a fuller phase, is climbing in the western sky though, reaching its maximum angular distance from the Sun on June 4 Still, this remarkably close pairing with brilliant Venus made Mercury, usually lost in bright twilight skies, easier to spot from planet Earth. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap200529.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not a bright star and crescent Moon caught between branches of a eucalyptus tree. It&#8217;s Venus in a crescent phase and Mercury. Near the western horizon after sunset, the <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23546\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-23546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23547,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23546\/revisions\/23547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}