This month's full moon is also a supermoon, meaning it appears slightly larger and brighter than usual.
occurs during a total lunar eclipse, when the Earth is positioned directly between the moon and the sun, hiding the moon from sunlight.
"When this happens, the only light that reaches the moon's surface is from the edges of the Earth's atmosphere," the space agency This month's full moon is also a supermoon, meaning it appears slightly larger and brighter than usual because it is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, known as the perigee. due to the abundance of flowers associated with spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It has also been called the corn planting moon and the milk moon.
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