{"id":657157,"date":"2020-06-05T07:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T11:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=657157"},"modified":"2020-06-05T07:51:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T11:51:38","slug":"spying-a-rare-ring-of-fire-around-venus-at-inferior-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=657157","title":{"rendered":"Spying a rare &#039;ring of fire&#039; around Venus at inferior conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing things happen in the day-to-day sky that often go unnoticed during our normal routine. Just such a curious &#8216;non-event&#8217; happened this week, when Venus reached inferior conjunction between the Earth and the sun on its race from the dusk to the dawn sky. And what&#8217;s even more amazing is the fact that some skilled observers followed this passage and caught sight of Venus as a tiny blazing &#8216;ring of fire&#8217; silhouetted against the dazzling sky.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-spying-rare-venus-inferior-conjunction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Spying a rare &#8216;ring of fire&#8217; around Venus at inferior conjunction<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing things happen in the day-to-day sky that often go unnoticed during our normal routine. Just such a curious &#8216;non-event&#8217; happened this week, when Venus reached inferior conjunction between the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}