{"id":329287,"date":"2025-12-04T03:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329287\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T03:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:59:22","slug":"cold-supermoon-on-the-rise-a-stunning-spectacle-arrives-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329287\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cold Supermoon\u2019 on the rise: A \u2018stunning spectacle\u2019 arrives this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last moon of the year<\/a> rises this week.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019ll be a \u201csuper\u201d show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Live Science reports <\/a>that this \u201cCold Supermoon\u201d \u2014 which the publication refers to as \u201ca stunning spectacle\u201d \u2014 will hang bright in the sky on Thursday, Dec. 4. You\u2019ll be able to best see it at around 6:14 p.m., although it will also look bright and full the day before and after. <\/p>\n

According to The Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/a>, the moon got its chilly name from Native Americans due to the colder temperatures it appears in. It\u2019s also known as the Long Night Moon, as it coincides closely with the longest nights of the year, around the time of the winter solstice. <\/p>\n

Now, as for why the Cold Moon is \u201csuper,\u201d NASA explains<\/a> that a supermoon occurs when the moon\u2019s orbit brings it the closest to our planet. This makes it look like it\u2019s bigger and brighter, hence \u201csuper.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the Moon\u2019s orbit wobbles and differs depending on where the Sun and Earth are in their orbits, the exact distance of these closest and furthest points varies, and some supermoons are closer or farther than others,\u201d NASA explains.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Supermoon\u201d isn\u2019t an official astronomical term, but typically it\u2019s used to describe a full moon that comes within at least 90 percent of perigree [the point it\u2019s closest to our planet].\u201d <\/p>\n

Live Science notes that the Cold Supermoon is the 12th moon of the year, and the final of four supermoons. <\/p>\n

As previously stated, it\u2019s also the last moon of 2025. That being said \u2014 enjoy the show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last moon of the year rises this week. And it\u2019ll be a \u201csuper\u201d show. Live Science reports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-329287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}