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Astronomical events to light up October skies

Rank
Ran
34h
Updated
3d ago
Closed
Outlets
3
Regions
2
Countries
3
Languages
3

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Saudi Gazette Saudi Arabia · English 1 Oct, 13:11 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Español (1) · עברית (1) · +1 language

Read at Saudi Gazette

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 3 after 35 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Saudi Gazette, 1 Oct, 13:11 UTC.
  2. Second country: Israel, with Israel Hayom (he).
  3. Second region: Americas, with La Hora (GT).
  4. Last article: 3 outlets.

Where it travelled

36 of 36 hours

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The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

33%67%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 33%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 67%

First movers

  1. Saudi Gazette 1 Oct, 13:11 UTC
  2. Israel Hayom (he) +29h 35m
  3. La Hora (GT) +35h 3m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: October lunar phases and astronomical events, 29 to 30 Sept 2026, 4 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
3 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 3 outlets, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Guatemala. Middle East 2: Israel, Saudi Arabia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Spanish, Hebrew.
Timeline
Earliest article Saudi Gazette, 1 Oct 2026, 13:11 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 00:14 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues October lunar phases and astronomical events. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 1 Oct, 14:10 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 00:14 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 3 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • La Hora (GT) Guatemala 3 Oct, 00:14 UTC
    Saturno, Mercurio y las Oriónidas: estos son los fenómenos astronómicos de octubre

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Israel Hayom (he) Israel 2 Oct, 18:46 UTC
    קורה רק פעם ב-15 שנה: האירועים האסטרונומיים שחייבים לראות באוקטובר
  • Saudi Gazette Saudi Arabia 1 Oct, 13:11 UTC
    Saturn opposition, meteor showers and planetary encounters to light up October skies
Read at Saudi Gazette

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