{"id":327150,"date":"2025-12-05T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327150\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:25:10","slug":"the-final-supermoon-of-2025-lights-up-the-night-sky-see-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327150\/","title":{"rendered":"The final supermoon of 2025 lights up the night sky. See photos."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">December&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/first-supermoon-2025-rising-heres-210035787.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:supermoon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">supermoon<\/a>\u00a0lit up the night sky across the world on Thursday, Dec. 4, marking the last full moon of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The world witnessed the December full moon at its peak around 6:14 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This month&#8217;s full moon was a supermoon, according to NASA, making it appear 30% brighter and up to 14% larger than usual. Supermoons happen when a new moon or a full moon is at its closest to Earth all month, according to NASA. The phenomenon is known as &#8220;perigee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the moon peaked on Dec. 4, \u00a0it will still look bright and beautiful on Friday, Dec. 5, and look full for several days after it peaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">December&#8217;s full moon is known as the Cold Moon, and gets its name from the Mohawk tribe, according to the\u00a0Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac. It&#8217;s also known as the Winter Maker Moon, the Little Spirit Moon, and the Long Night Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Want to see the last supermoon of 2025? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/want-see-last-supermoon-2025-190645071.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Here&#039;s what to know.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s what to know.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See photos of December&#8217;s Cold Moon<img alt=\"The final full supermoon of 2025, the Cold Moon on Dec. 4, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"864\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/af48d81303d4cf1d73885a12af98c196.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The final full supermoon of 2025, the Cold Moon on Dec. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Cold Moon rises in Jensen Beach, Florida, on Dec. 4.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1222\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/de672f504fad503a3d85ef53139535b1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Cold Moon rises in Jensen Beach, Florida, on Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Cold Moon rises over downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Dec. 4, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"712\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f1582e45def29de9193698f0168231e7.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Cold Moon rises over downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Dec. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Cold Moon illuminates the sky as a ship passes by, in the Strait of Magellan in Punta Arenas, Chile, Dec. 4, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"629\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c0354f2e6f24b3ccc227d356f7c21505.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Cold Moon illuminates the sky as a ship passes by, in the Strait of Magellan in Punta Arenas, Chile, Dec. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Julia is a Trending reporter for USA TODAY and covers all things Labubu and Pop Mart, scientific studies and trending news. Connect with her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juliamgomez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:LinkedIn;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuliaMarieGZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/juliamariegz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@juliamariegz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TikTok;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TikTok<\/a>: @juliamariegz, or email her at jgomez@gannett.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2025\/12\/05\/december-full-moon-2025-supermoon-photos\/87619361007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:See photos of the December full moon, the last supermoon of 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">See photos of the December full moon, the last supermoon of 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December&#8217;s\u00a0supermoon\u00a0lit up the night sky across the world on Thursday, Dec. 4, marking the last full moon of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,17214,66,23479],"class_list":["post-327150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-full-moon","tag-science","tag-supermoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}