{"id":799965,"date":"2026-01-02T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799965"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:30:32","slug":"a-new-year-around-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799965","title":{"rendered":"A new year around the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>See what the new year has in store for space science and exploration.\u00a0<\/strong>The Planetary Society\u2019s calendar of space events for 2026 outlines all the most spectacular launches, space mission milestones, and celestial events to watch out for over the next 12 months. The launch of Artemis II, which will mark the first time humans venture beyond low-Earth orbit in over 50 years, could fly as soon as February. <i>Image credit: NASA \/ Kim Shiflett.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/email\/newsletter\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kick off 2026 with a guide to January\u2019s night sky.<\/strong> This month\u2019s What\u2019s Up promises amazing views of Jupiter and Saturn. The Quadrantid meteor shower will also peak this weekend, though the brightness of a full Moon will reduce visibility of the celestial display.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/the-downlink\/a-new-year-around-the-sun?rand=772267\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See what the new year has in store for space science and exploration.\u00a0The Planetary Society\u2019s calendar of space events for 2026 outlines all the most spectacular launches, space mission milestones,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planetary-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799965","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=799965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/799966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}