The Sturgeon Moon will be visible in the night sky Thursday.
On Wednesday, the moon rose above the Statue of Liberty and seemed to be full
The Sturgeon Moon, the last supermoon of the year, will be visible on Thursday around 9:36 p.m. Eastern time.
On Wednesday, the moon rose above the Statue of Liberty and seemed to be full
The Sturgeon Moon, the last supermoon of the year, will be visible on Thursday around 9:36 p.m. Eastern time.
The Native Algonquin people gave it that name for the enormous fish that are unusually abundant in the Great Lakes at this time of year, according to a 1930s edition of the Maine Farmer's Almanac
The name was first used by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979; it is not a recognised astronomical term.
A full moon that comes at perigee, the moon's closest point in its orbit to Earth, is known as a supermoon.
This is what distinguishes a supermoon from regular full moons in size and brightness.
It’s not all that noticeable. But it can still be a wonderful sight on a clear night, said Noah Petro, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt
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