{"id":70238,"date":"2016-05-06T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T11:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d33f867730540062199b6fe4808bf65f"},"modified":"2016-05-06T11:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T11:21:16","slug":"news-story-a-transit-of-mercury-occurs-on-monday-9-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70238","title":{"rendered":"News story: A Transit of Mercury occurs on Monday 9 May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Transit of Mercury occurs on Monday 9 May 2016 which is visible in its entirety from the British Isles. A transit such as this occurs when a planetary body, Mercury in this case, comes between the Earth and the Sun. A small black dot can be seen moving across the face of the sun. <\/p>\n<p>Mercury will look like an extremely small sunspot, crossing the disk of the Sun in 7 hours 30 minutes. This event is probably best seen by watching a webcast of the transit. Do not observe the Sun without suitable eye protection.<\/p>\n<p>Further details and other astronomical events can be found on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/astro.ukho.gov.uk\/nao\/sky_general.html#eclp\">HMNAO\u2019s monthly astronomical web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Transit of Mercury will occur on Monday 9 May 2016 visible from the British Isles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}