{"id":21512,"date":"2021-07-29T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/?p=98467"},"modified":"2021-07-29T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:06:50","slug":"star-diary-whats-in-the-night-sky-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/star-diary-whats-in-the-night-sky-august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Diary: What\u2019s in the night sky, August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ezzy Pearson\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 29 July 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>August 2021 looks set to be a great month for summer stargazing, with Jupiter and Saturn both set to reach opposition (their closest approach to Earth) and the Perseid meteor shower on 12 August.<\/p>\n<p>To find out how to observe these sights and more, listen to the latest episode of Star Diary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;embed&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\">  <\/div>\n<\/div> \n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ezzy Pearson Published: Thursday, 29 July 2021 at 12:00 am August 2021 looks set to be a great month for summer stargazing, with Jupiter and Saturn both set to reach opposition (their closest approach to Earth) and the Perseid meteor shower on 12 August. To find out how to observe these sights and more, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Ezzy Pearson Published: Thursday, 29 July 2021 at 12:00 am August 2021 looks set to be a great month for summer stargazing, with Jupiter and Saturn both set to reach opposition (their closest approach to Earth) and the Perseid meteor shower on 12 August. To find out how to observe these sights and more,&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/21512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}