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Credit & Copyright: Alexandros Maragos
Explanation:
A supermoon occurred yesterday.
And tonight's moon should also look impressive.
Supermoons appear slightly larger and brighter than
most full moons because they reach their full phase when
slightly nearer to the Earth -- closer than 90 percent of all
full moons.
This supermoon was also a blue moon given the
definition that it is the third of four full moons occurring during a single season.
Blue moons are not usually blue,
and a different definition holds that a
blue moon
is the second full moon that occurs during a single month.
The featured image captured the
blue supermoon
right near its peak size yesterday as it was rising
beyond the
Temple of Poseidon in
Greece.
This supermoon is particularly unusual in that it is the
first of four successive supermoons,
the next three occurring in September, October, and November.
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