{"id":13578,"date":"2016-12-01T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13578"},"modified":"2016-12-01T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:19:53","slug":"video-whats-up-for-december-2016-night-sky-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13578","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;What&#8217;s Up for December 2016&#8221; &#8211; Night sky highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA JPL&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>What&#8217;s Up for December 2016<\/em>\u00a0describes the most interesting sights to see in the night sky for the coming month:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>See Mercury, Venus and Mars all month long and a New Year\u2019s Eve comet. With some luck, you may catch some Geminid and Ursid meteors, too. Catch up on all of NASA&#8217;s missions at <a class=\" yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgiEwj5vqDhy9PQAhXMwJwKHTO2D9wo-B0\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8rS1zU2zB34?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA JPL&#8217;s What&#8217;s Up for December 2016\u00a0describes the most interesting sights to see in the night sky for the coming month: See Mercury, Venus and Mars all month long and a New Year\u2019s Eve comet. With some luck, you may catch some Geminid and Ursid meteors, too. Catch up on all of NASA&#8217;s missions at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13578\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: &#8220;What&#8217;s Up for December 2016&#8221; &#8211; Night sky highlights<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3x0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27128,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=27128","url_meta":{"origin":13578,"position":0},"title":"Night sky highlights for December 2024","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the night sky this month, December 2024. 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