{"id":3062,"date":"2024-08-19T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/in-pictures-blue-supermoon-lights-up-sky-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T23:00:31","slug":"in-pictures-blue-supermoon-lights-up-sky-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/in-pictures-blue-supermoon-lights-up-sky-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Blue supermoon lights up sky around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographers from around the world have been busy capturing a lunar lightshow \u2013 the blue supermoon.<\/p>\n<p>A supermoon occurs when a full moon rises during its closest point in its orbit to Earth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>A blue moon is even rarer, happening when there are two full moons within a single calendar month or four full moons within a season.<\/p>\n<p>It happens once every two to three years \u2013 that\u2019s where the saying \u201conce in a blue moon\u201d comes from.<\/p>\n<p>The dust from wildfires in North America may give the moon a red glow; blue moons aren\u2019t actually blue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>During a supermoon, the moon appears up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter compared with when it is furthest away.<\/p>\n<p>After this supermoon, the next will be on 18 September, followed by 17 October and then finishing with a final supermoon on 15 November.<\/p>\n<p>While Monday\u2019s blue supermoon is rare, September\u2019s coincides with a partial lunar eclipse \u2013 another sight worth watching out for.<\/p>\n<p>The term supermoon was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979 as either a new or full moon that occurs when the moon is within 90% of its closest approach to Earth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographers from around the world have been busy capturing a lunar lightshow \u2013 the blue&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}