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Rare Full Moon to Rise on Christmas; First in almost 40 Years
This year’s peak will happen on Friday, at exactly 3:11 a.m., OR time.
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The closest full moon to the winter solstice is known as the Long Night’s Moon, with less than 9 and a half hours of daylight at this time of year.
The last cold moon was seen in 1977, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on its website.
So be sure to look up at the sky before you head to bed, and maybe you’ll see Santa’s sleigh in all the moonlight. As you may know, each month’s full moon has a specific significance within Pagan traditions, and the full moon itself, regardless of the date, is a meaningful time of the month. Following this year’s, Christmas full moons will return in 2034, 2053 and 2072 and 2091.
It comes three days after the shortest day of the year on Tuesday (December 22). “The geologic history of the moon and Earth are intimately tied together such that the Earth would be a dramatically different planet without the moon”.
The photo was captured by NASA’s robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
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“The image is simply stunning”, says Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for LRO at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The bottom half of the image displays the bleak yet enchanting lunar surface, whilst the upper portion captures Earth’s fragile disk swathed in white cloud.