You'll have to wait more than a decade to see another full moon like this.
The Flower Moon rises over Kalamazoo, Michigan on Thursday, May 7, 2020. It was the last "supermoon" of 2020.The month of August will close out with a rare treat for sky watchers: A “super blue moon” that will be the last of its kind for more than a decade.
On Aug. 30, the moon will be full for the second time in a calendar month — an occurrence that makes it a so-called blue moon. This full moon also qualifies as a supermoon — a term for when the full moon occurs within a day or so of the moon being at its closest point to Earth along its monthly orbit.
That’s how this special August full moon has come to be called a “super blue moon,” which, according to NASA, is quite rare. “About 25 percent of all full moons are supermoons, but only 3 percent of full moons are blue moons,” NASA writers Tracy Vogel and Ernie Wright. “The time between super blue moons is quite irregular ― it can be as much as 20 years ― but in general, 10 years is the average. The next super blue moons will occur in a pair, in January and March 2037.”
Supermoons can appear brighter than usual and seem about 14% bigger than full moons that occur farther from Earth. Stargazers should look to the east-southeast horizon on Aug. 30 to see the super blue moon rising around 8:24 p.m. ET, about an hour before this moon reaches peak fullness at 9:36 p.m. ET., this full moon will be the closest, biggest and brightest full supermoon of the year. The next supermoon, occurring Sept. 29, will be the last supermoon of 2023.
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