Get ready for four bright celestial events in the coming months as the season of the supermoons kicks off next week. It’s a quartet of supermoons that includes a partial lunar eclipse, coming during a year where the U.S. already paused to mark a rare solar eclipse.
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Earth’s constant companion will put on a show, growing brighter and brighter starting Monday as it draws closer to our planet than normal.
According to NASA, the August full moon is a supermoon – and in this case, it’s a “Blue Moon”. It happens on August 19 at 2:26 PM EDT. At that point, the Moon will be 224,917 miles away from us.
The Moon will appear full for three days, from Sunday morning through early Wednesday morning.
“The first recorded use of ‘Blue Moon’ in English dates from 1528. Speculations on the origin of the term include an old English phrase that means ‘betrayer Moon’ (because it led to mistakes in setting the dates for Lent and Easter). Or it may be a comparison to rare events such as when dust
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