Two half images of the full Moon side by side, taken at different times, with the right half being slightly larger than the left one.

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1. Juan Carlos Muñoz (astro_jcm@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 08:37:56 UTC Juan Carlos Muñoz

   1/3 Today you're gonna hear a lot of hype about a blue #SuperMoon, so let me unpack what this means.

   The Moon's orbit around the Earth is slightly elliptical. Sometimes it's a bit closer and thus looks a tad bigger. The difference is barely noticeable, not even remotely close to "super".

   "Blue Moon" refers to this being the third full #Moon in a season that has four or, more commonly (but not in this case) the second full Moon in a month.

   #astronomy #science

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