{"id":675242,"date":"2026-05-31T02:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675242\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:56:12","slug":"saturdays-micromoon-will-be-the-farthest-smallest-and-dimmest-of-the-year-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675242\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday\u2019s micromoon will be the farthest, smallest and dimmest of the year : NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Once in the blue moon happens Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p>A \u2018blue moon\u2019 is a second full moon in the same month. We had another full moon back on May 1st. <\/p>\n<p>A \u2018blue moon\u2019 is special because they only happen every two or three years.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s lunar occurrence is a micromoon as well. What is a micromoon? It\u2019s the opposite of a supermoon. <\/p>\n<p>A micromoon happens when the moon is at its farthest point from the Earth during its orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say what you see in the sky will be 6% smaller and 10% dimmer than an average full moon.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, NASA says Saturday night\u2019s micromoon will be the farthest, smallest, and dimmest Moon this year.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (6)<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope skies will be clear so you can say you saw the rare blue micromoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Once in the blue moon happens Saturday night. A \u2018blue moon\u2019 is a second full moon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-675242","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\/675242","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=675242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}