2023-08-29 12:13:25
Astronomy enthusiasts will be able to observe the Super Blue Moon, a fairly rare phenomenon, on the night of Wednesday August 30 to Thursday August 31.
It is an impressive event to follow very closely, but also from very far away. According to NASA, the world’s population will be able to observe, on the night of Wednesday August 30 to Thursday August 31, a very rare lunar phenomenon which only occurs once every ten or twenty years: the Super Blue Moon.
The result of two lunar phenomena
Contrary to its name, the Super Blue Moon will not be blue. This color adjective comes from the expression “once is a blue moon”, indicating the rarity of an event, which will simply be the second full moon in August.
This Blue Moon phenomenon will be added to that of the Super Moon, when the Moon is closest to the Earth in its elliptical orbit, about 364,000 kilometers from Earth. With this approach of the Earth, the lunar star will be larger and brighter than usual.
The combination of these two lunar phenomena makes it a very rare astronomical event according to NASA.
The U.S. federal agency estimates the next Super Blue Moon to be in January 2037.
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