{"id":169857,"date":"2025-12-05T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169857\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:07:07","slug":"see-photos-of-the-december-full-moon-the-last-supermoon-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169857\/","title":{"rendered":"See photos of the December full moon, the last supermoon of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/87621532007-20251205-vpc-last-supermoon-of-the-year-seen-around-the-world-thumb-00-00-00-27-still-00.jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>See the last Supermoon of 2025 in views from around the world<\/p>\n<p>Supermoons occur when a new or full moon is closest to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>December&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/10\/05\/october-supermoon-2025-harvest-full-moon\/86495274007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">supermoon<\/a>\u00a0lit up the night sky across the world on Thursday, Dec. 4, marking the last full moon of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The world witnessed the December full moon at its peak around 6:14 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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=\"related-link\">Want to see the last supermoon of 2025? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2025\/12\/03\/december-full-moon-2025-cold-moon-supermoon\/87586166007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s what to know.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See photos of December&#8217;s Cold Moon<\/p>\n<p>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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuliaMarieGZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/juliamariegz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@juliamariegz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a>: @juliamariegz, or email her at jgomez@gannett.com<\/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":"See the last Supermoon of 2025 in views from around the world Supermoons occur when a new or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[8038,4645,8039,1853,3814,3806,3812,2070,8040,6057,17518,4791,426,449,8036,8042,3323,3805,3811,429,111,43,139,69,1642,19663,428,450,381,4029,147,392,427,42512,613,2044,8044,478,8041,431,3807,3813],"class_list":{"0":"post-169857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-natural","9":"tag-astronomy","10":"tag-calendars","11":"tag-central","12":"tag-central-region","13":"tag-east","14":"tag-east-region","15":"tag-full","16":"tag-full-moon","17":"tag-galleries","18":"tag-image","19":"tag-instagram","20":"tag-modular","21":"tag-modular-story","22":"tag-moon","23":"tag-moon-natural-satellite","24":"tag-nasa","25":"tag-network","26":"tag-network-trending","27":"tag-neutral","28":"tag-new-zealand","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-newzealand","31":"tag-nz","32":"tag-online","33":"tag-online-image-galleries","34":"tag-overall","35":"tag-overall-neutral","36":"tag-region","37":"tag-satellite","38":"tag-science","39":"tag-space","40":"tag-story","41":"tag-supermoon","42":"tag-tiktok","43":"tag-time","44":"tag-time-u0026-calendars","45":"tag-trending","46":"tag-trending-news","47":"tag-u0026","48":"tag-west","49":"tag-west-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}