The last supermoon of the year is happening right now. That’s right, if you look out your window, you might catch a glimpse given the conditions are right and you’re reading this report shortly after it was published.
The next one won’t come around until nearly a year from now so if you missed this one, the sixth of the year, you’ll have to wait until 2016 to catch the next.
The last one, the fifth of the year, was an ultra-rare one known as a perigee lunar eclipse, or what some have referred to as a “blood moon eclipse,” “supermoon lunar eclipse” and “super blood moon” — an event in which a supermoon coincides with a lunar eclipse. The last one, which occurred on September 27 of this year, was the first in over 30 years.
The next supermoon is scheduled to appear in October of 2016.
Tonight’s was particularly large and bright, as supermoons can appear between 12 to 14 percent larger and between 12 to 30 percent brighter in comparison to regular moons.
Although it may appear so, Business Insider‘s Jessica Orwig notes in a report that the moon is not growing in size, it’s just slightly closer to our planet than normal, which gives it its larger appearance.
The moon will be at its fullest point just after 8:00 a.m. (ET) on Tuesday so if you happen to wake up early, you might be able to catch it at its peak.
In other lunar coverage here at Immortal News, China has plans to strip mine the moon for Helium-3 and Roscosmos has joined forces with the European Space Agency to not only visit the dark side of the moon, but to colonize it.
