What is a full moon?
The full moon, opposite the sun in its orbit, shows us its sunlit side. The moon appears full a couple of days before and after the exact moment of full moon.| EarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world
The full moon, opposite the sun in its orbit, shows us its sunlit side. The moon appears full a couple of days before and after the exact moment of full moon.| EarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world
View full size. | World map of time zones. UTC (0) is the green vertical stripe just to the left of center. Image via TimeZonesBoy/ CIA/ Wikimedia.Time zones| EarthSky
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View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Marsha Chan in Los Angeles, California, captured this celestial trifecta – of the Harvest Moon, a supermoon and a partial lunar eclipse – on September 17, 2024. Thank you, Marsha! The Harvest Moon is one of the North American full moon names.Cultures across the world have given special names to full moons, and this practice is very much alive in North America. Some almanacs assign full moon names by the month. On the other hand, other almanacs like to ...| EarthSky
See the full Moon name for each month of the year from The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac. Learn the special meaning behind each names—from January's Wolf Moon to December's Cold Moon.| Almanac.com
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Jonathan Charles Fox captured this image in New York on the December solstice in 2024. Jonathan wrote: “This is my back yard #lovewhereyoulive.” Thank you, Jonathan! It’s certainly a great backyard.The December solstice marks the sun’s southernmost point in the sky, for all of Earth, for this year. It comes at 15:03 UTC (9:03 a.m. CST) on December 21. Though no world body has decreed it, we in the Northern Hemisphere will celebrate the first day of...| EarthSky
