The Flower Moon is seen through the trees in May 2021 in Amesbury, UK.
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The Flower Moon is seen through the trees in May 2021 in Amesbury, UK.
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The best show in the night sky this week might not be fireworks.
Monday night’s sky will be lit by the first supermoon of the year — so called because it will be full and close to Earth in an elliptical orbit around our planet.
According to Space.comThe moon will be about 224,895 miles from Earth — significantly closer than its typical distance of about 238,000 miles.
Because they are both round and close to Earth, supermoons appear in the night sky larger and brighter than normal moons, although experts say you can hardly notice the difference with the naked eye. .
Monday’s full moon is called Buck Moon, each Yearbook of the old farmerbecause the antlers of stags known as stags are in full development mode at this time of year.
The almanac says it uses moon names from various “Native American, Colonial and European” sources. Other names for the July moons include Moult Moon, Flower Moon, Salmon Moon, Berries Moon, and Thunder Moon.
This is just the first of four supermoons expected to appear this year. EarthSky reported. The other two will happen in August and the fourth will come in September.
And they’re not just a celestial curiosity. NASA says Supermoons can make the high and low tides here on Earth more extreme, and the tides can be more intense the closer the moon is to us.
