{"id":239344,"date":"2025-11-02T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239344\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:25:08","slug":"november-supermoon-rising-next-week-to-be-biggest-full-moon-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239344\/","title":{"rendered":"November supermoon rising next week to be biggest full Moon of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Moon does not orbit the earth in a perfect circle but has more of an egg-shaped, elliptical orbit. Therefore it is not always the same distance from the Earth.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At its closest point &#8211; or perigee &#8211; the Moon is about 220,000 miles away from Earth, whereas at its furthest point &#8211; or apogee &#8211; it is around 250,000 miles away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the Moon is full at its closest point to Earth, or within 90% of its perigee, it can be referred to as a &#8216;supermoon&#8217;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The term was first coined in 1979 by astrologer Richard Nolle to describe full Moons that appear noticeably larger and brighter as they coincide with the perigee. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They can seem to be up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/stories\/space-astronomy\/what-supermoon\" class=\"ssrcss-16fdtb5-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full Moons, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">November&#8217;s Beaver Moon will be the closest full Moon to Earth this year, therefore it will be the brightest and will appear to be the largest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Moon does not orbit the earth in a perfect circle but has more of an egg-shaped, elliptical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-239344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}