{"id":6621,"date":"2024-08-20T11:38:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T11:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/in-pictures-blue-supermoon-lights-up-sky-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T11:38:41","slug":"in-pictures-blue-supermoon-lights-up-sky-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/in-pictures-blue-supermoon-lights-up-sky-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Blue supermoon lights up sky around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photographers from around the world have been busy capturing a lunar lightshow – the blue supermoon.<\/p>\n

A supermoon occurs when a full moon rises during its closest point in its orbit to Earth.<\/p>\n

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A blue moon is even rarer, happening when there are two full moons within a single calendar month or four full moons within a season.<\/p>\n

It happens once every two to three years – that’s where the saying “once in a blue moon” comes from.<\/p>\n

The dust from wildfires in North America may give the moon a red glow; blue moons aren’t actually blue.<\/p>\n

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During a supermoon, the moon appears up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter compared with when it is furthest away.<\/p>\n

After this supermoon, the next will be on 18 September, followed by 17 October and then finishing with a final supermoon on 15 November.<\/p>\n

While Monday’s blue supermoon is rare, September’s coincides with a partial lunar eclipse – another sight worth watching out for.<\/p>\n

The term supermoon was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979 as either a new or full moon that occurs when the moon is within 90% of its closest approach to Earth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n

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Photographers from around the world have been busy capturing a lunar lightshow – the blue supermoon. A supermoon occurs when a full moon rises during its closest point in its orbit to Earth. A blue moon is even rarer, happening when there are two full moons within a single calendar month or four full moons <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}