2/3 So don't expect the Moon to look particularly big tonight, let alone blue! The Moon often looks unusually large, especially when it's close to the horizon. But this is an optical illusion that has nothing to do with the Moon being closer to us:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion
The term supermoon was coined by an astrologer 45 years ago, and has no relevance to astronomy (or to anything, for that matter...)
Juan Carlos Muñoz /
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2024-08-19 08:20:26
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