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I knew what I was actually seeing: the moon illusion. Anyone who has seen the moon (or the sun) near the horizon has experienced this effect. The moon looks enormous there, far larger than it does ...
The Strawberry Moon will rise next week, but Brits might notice something unusual about June's full Moon. A full Moon happens ...
This month will see the full strawberry moon burst into fruit in the UK's skies, but in a rather unusual place. The first ...
June's full moon, the last of the spring season in the Northern Hemisphere, is also known as the Strawberry Moon. Here's all ...
Basically, it says that the Moon looks bigger near the horizon because of the way the brain misinterprets the sizes of objects when they share the same field of view. When the Moon is close to the ...
This full moon is the last of the spring season in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s also the lowest full moon of the year as ...
As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by. The moon will appear to skip over Mars between the nights ...
Countless shadowed craters line the terminator all the way down to the moon's southern pole, while the 54-mile-wide (87 km) ...
A Strawberry Moon will illuminate the night sky this month. That’s the name given to the full moon that occurs every June.
Half of the moon will be illuminated as it reaches its first quarter phase on Monday, June 2. The first quarter phase marks ...
According to EarthSky writer Deborah Boyd, it's the close location to the horizon that gives the Hunter's Moon its warm colour. "The orange colour of a moon near the horizon is a true physical ...
According to NASA, it’s true that most stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see Venus, Saturn and the waning crescent moon near the horizon about 30 minutes before sunrise.