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From the "flower moon" to the "buck moon," each version has a distinct cultural and astrological meaning. Maybe you've heard the saying, "Once in a blue moon." The colloquialism refers to the rare ...
August's full moon, which is coming Monday, has several names, including supermoon, blue moon and sturgeon moon. So what do they all mean? The "super" part refers to the moon's orbit, which brings ...
A rare super blue moon will shine in the sky as August wraps up. The month already featured a supermoon as it began, but the second full supermoon of the month — which will appear on Wednesday ...
The rare super blue moon will reach peak fullness on Monday, Aug. 19. On the heels of the Perseid meteor shower earlier this month, August is offering another great astronomical sight -- the rare ...
Wednesday night skies will feature a “super blue moon,” according to NASA, meaning it will be the second time this month there will be a supermoon—a rarity that won’t occur again for years.
The second full moon in one month is also known as a blue moon, like the phrase “once in a blue moon,” according to NASA. Just don’t expect it to take on a blue hue. Typically, full moons ...
Wednesday’s full moon, the second in August, was a celestial rarity. It was also bigger and brighter than usual. By Katrina Miller The lunar fanfare of August wrapped up with a treat: a blue ...
August's full moon, which is coming Monday, August 19, has several names. It's a supermoon, a blue moon and the sturgeon moon. So what do they all mean? The "super" part refers to the moon's orbit ...
Large in the sky and perfectly round, Monday night’s super blue moon is an attention-getter. But how rare, really, is it? It is unusual because it’s both blue and super. According to NASA ...
The second supermoon this month, a blue moon, is set to appear in the night sky on Wednesday, Aug. 30. This latest supermoon will be the closest of the year, an intimate 222,043 moon miles from ...
If you've ever used the expression "once in a blue moon," then you might already have some idea of how rare blue moons are. Now take that rarity and triple it to get a sense of how truly ...