{"id":46979,"date":"2025-08-06T04:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46979\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:38:08","slug":"how-to-see-the-black-moon-astronomical-phenomenon-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46979\/","title":{"rendered":"How to see the black moon astronomical phenomenon later this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An astronomical phenomenon will occur over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Australian\">Australian<\/a> skies later this month in the form of a black moon.<\/p>\n<p>The term black moon can refer to two events: a second new moon in a single calendar month, or a third new moon in an astronomical season that has four new moons.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>In this case, August 23 will see the third new moon between June and September.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/629f6e1f-58ac-48ff-97c4-852e0993f939.jpeg\"   alt=\"Waxing crescent moon\"\/>A rare astronomical phenomenon will take place over Aussie skies later this month. (NASA)<\/p>\n<p>Black moons are rare, with a second new moon in a calendar month only occurring once every 29 months, or two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>How to see the black moon above Australia<\/p>\n<p>A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between the Earth and the sun.<\/p>\n<p>In this time, it is not illuminated by the sun, making it appear dark to the human eye, and &#8216;new&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This does mean Aussies wishing to see the rare phenomenon will be disappointed, as it won&#8217;t be visible to the naked eye.<\/p>\n<p>This is because the moon&#8217;s unlit face is pointing towards Earth.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weatherzone.com.au\/news\/black-moon-to-occur-above-australia-this-month\/1890781\" title=\"Weatherzone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weatherzone<\/a>, the only difference eagle-eyed Australians would be able to notice would be the unlit moon blocking a few stars and causing them to briefly disappear, but they also point out it would require &#8220;good viewing conditions&#8221;.\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An astronomical phenomenon will occur over Australian skies later this month in the form of a black moon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-46979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}