The closest, brightest full moon of 2023 is also the second full moon in August. Here's how to see it.
The biggest and brightest full moon of 2023 will rise on Aug. 30, and its strange name deserves an explanation. Called a"blue supermoon," it is the result of three lunar phenomena happening at once.
There are two types of blue moon. The August blue supermoon falls into the first category: two full moons occurring in the same month. That's occasionally inevitable; a new full moon rises every 29.5 days. Given that the Sturgeon Moon occurred on Aug. 1, 2023, the Aug. 30 full moon will be a blue moon. Blue moons of this type, called"calendar blue moons," occur roughly every two or three years, with the next one occurring on May 31, 2026, according to timeanddate.
August's second full moon is the third and closest of four supermoons in 2023. At 222,043 miles from Earth, it will be the biggest and brightest supermoon of 2023, though it will be only 20 miles closer than Aug. 1's full moon, which was 222,023 miles away.—Life may already exist on the moon — and NASA's next mission could find itThe next full moon will be the Harvest Moon, on Sept. 29.
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