{"id":71493,"date":"2025-08-10T03:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71493\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T03:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:40:06","slug":"photos-show-august-2025-full-moon-dazzling-in-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71493\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos show August 2025 full moon dazzling in night sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week marked the arrival of the Sturgeon Moon<\/a>, a moon rising<\/a> that wows stargazing enthusiasts<\/a> in the Northern Hemisphere each year.<\/p>\n

Named after a massive fish that traces back 136 million years ago<\/a> and was once bountiful in the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, the Sturgeon Moon rises each year in August.<\/p>\n

This month, the full moon peaked just before 4 a.m. ET<\/a> on Saturday morning, Aug. 9. But Americans have been treated to a bright light in the night sky for a few days now, as Earth’s neighbor has appeared completely illuminated by direct sunlight since entering its “full” phase this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Viewers saw the Sturgeon Moon approach its peak when it began to shine after sunset Friday evening, Aug. 8, which came a few minutes after 8 p.m. local time in New York City, according to\u00a0Time and Date<\/a>.\u00a0Elsewhere in the country, onlookers got a better glimpse after sunset times around 7:21 p.m. in Phoenix, 7:46 p.m. in Los Angeles, and 7:59 p.m. in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Take a look at this year\u2019s Sturgeon Moon as it shined in the night sky this year.<\/p>\n

See photos of the August 2025 full moon<\/p>\n

Saleen Martin is a reporter on USA TODAY’s NOW team. She is from Norfolk, Virginia \u2013 the 757. Email her at sdmartin@usatoday.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week marked the arrival of the Sturgeon Moon, a moon rising that wows stargazing enthusiasts in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6626,40333,13532,7042,41544,29772,6779,14883,3,13531,13549,13470,13471,5573,6583,79,193,9175,2384,40337,3795,13692],"class_list":["post-71493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-calendars","tag-exploration","tag-moon","tag-moon-natural-satellite","tag-natural","tag-network","tag-network-trending","tag-news","tag-outer","tag-outer-space","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-satellite","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration","tag-time","tag-time-u0026-calendars","tag-trending","tag-u0026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71493","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=71493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}