{"id":107724,"date":"2025-10-28T03:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/107724\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:33:12","slug":"the-years-largest-supermoon-to-be-visible-in-uae-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/107724\/","title":{"rendered":"The year’s largest supermoon to be visible in UAE next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The largest and brightest supermoon<\/a> of the year will light up the UAE<\/a>\u2019s skies on Tuesday, November 5.<\/p>\n

Known as the Beaver Moon, it will be the penultimate supermoon of the year, appearing about 14 per cent larger and up to 30 per cent brighter than an average full moon.<\/p>\n

A supermoon refers to when the Moon\u2019s orbit is closest to Earth at the same time as a full Moon.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s supermoon will be about 356,833km from Earth, almost 28,000km closer than the average distance. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Moon looks bigger when it\u2019s near the horizon due to the \u2018moon illusion\u2019,\u201d Khadijah Ahmed, operations manager at the Dubai Astronomy Group, told The National.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the Moon’s actual size doesn’t change, our brain perceives it as larger when we see it next to objects like trees or buildings on the horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was given the nickname \u2018Beaver Moon\u2019 because of an old tradition, when Native Americans used to mark the time beavers would prepare for winter by building their lodges before rivers froze.<\/p>\n

“The term has origins from a variety of traditions and folklore in Native American and European culture,” Nasa says on its website. <\/p>\n

“November is when beavers prepare for the winter by fortifying dams and stocking their food supply. <\/p>\n

“November was also the season to trap beavers for their thick, winter-ready pelts to use for warmer clothing.”<\/p>\n

This will be the second of three supermoons to take place in the country this year, with the first one, called Hunter\u2019s Moon, that happened on October 1. <\/p>\n

The final supermoon of the year, the Cold Moon, will appear on December 4.<\/p>\n

This is a busy season of astronomy events that includes supermoons and meteor showers. <\/p>\n

The Orionids meteor shower peaked on October 21 and 22, sending bright streaks of light across the night sky.<\/p>\n

The season will close with the Geminids meteor shower on December 13 and 14. The Geminids are among the most reliably visible and dazzling showers, and can feature 120 meteors an hour at their peak.<\/p>\n

Other workplace saving schemes
\nThe UAE government announced a retirement savings plan for private and free zone sector employees in 2023.
\nDubai\u2019s\u00a0savings retirement scheme for foreign employees\u00a0<\/a>working in the emirate\u2019s government and public sector came into effect in 2022.
\nNational Bonds unveiled a Golden Pension Scheme in 2022 to help private-sector foreign employees\u00a0<\/a>with their financial planning.
\nIn April 2021, Hayah Insurance unveiled a\u00a0workplace savings plan<\/a>\u00a0to help UAE employees save for their retirement.
\n Lunate, an Abu Dhabi-based investment manager, has launched a fund that will allow UAE private companies to offer employees investment returns on end-of-service benefits.
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Torque: 405Nm at 1,750-3,500rpm<\/p>\n

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Gertrude Bell’s life in focus<\/p>\n

A feature film <\/p>\n

At one point, two feature films were in the works, but only German director Werner Herzog\u2019s project starring Nicole Kidman would be made. While there were high hopes he would do a worthy job of directing the biopic, when Queen of the Desert arrived in 2015 it was a disappointment. Critics panned the film, in which Herzog largely glossed over Bell\u2019s political work in favour of her ill-fated romances. <\/p>\n

A documentary<\/p>\n

A project that did do justice to Bell arrived the next year: Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum\u2019s Letters from Baghdad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Gertrude Bell. Drawing on more than 1,000 pieces of archival footage, 1,700 documents and 1,600 letters, the filmmakers painstakingly pieced together a compelling narrative that managed to convey both the depth of Bell\u2019s experience and her tortured love life.<\/p>\n

Books, letters and archives<\/p>\n

Two biographies have been written about Bell, and both are worth reading: Georgina Howell\u2019s 2006 book Queen of the Desert and Janet Wallach\u2019s 1996 effort Desert Queen. Bell published several books documenting her travels and there are also several volumes of her letters, although they are hard to find in print. Original documents are housed at the Gertrude Bell Archive at the University of Newcastle, which has an online catalogue.
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Ain Dubai in numbers<\/p>\n

126: The length in metres of the legs supporting the structure<\/p>\n

1 football pitch: The length of each permanent spoke is longer than a professional soccer pitch<\/p>\n

16 A380 Airbuses: The equivalent weight of the wheel rim.<\/p>\n

9,000 tonnes: The amount of steel used to construct the project.<\/p>\n

5 tonnes: The weight of each permanent spoke that is holding the wheel rim in place<\/p>\n

192: The amount of cable wires used to create the wheel. They measure a distance of 2,4000km in total, the equivalent of the distance between Dubai and Cairo.<\/p>\n

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