In this case, several Indigenous groups of North America call the June full moon "Strawberry Moon" - including the Anishnaabe peoples of the Great Lakes and the Sioux of the Great Plains, according to the Western Washington University Planetarium. There are two more supermoons - on November 4 and December 4 - but they'll be invisible new moons. If you do consider Thursday's full moon to be a supermoon, it's the last one you'll see this year. "By that definition, the full moon on June 24 is also a supermoon, even though it is not as close as the full moon was in May or April." "The term 'supermoon' is much more recent and has come to be any full or new moon within 90% of its closest approach to Earth," Christine Shupla, an education manager at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, told CNN. So astronomers and enthusiasts disagree on which full moons get the designation.
But the International Astronomical Union has not established a rule about how close to Earth the full moon must be in order to qualify. They can cause stronger ocean tides and affect the weather. Generally, supermoons occur when the moon is at perigee - the closest point to Earth in its orbit. The status is up for debate because there's no official definition of a supermoon. Thursday's celestial display is also a supermoon - depending on who you ask. However, the moon tends to sit lower in the sky in June, according to NASA, which could give it a pinkish hue as it shines through the thickest parts of the atmosphere. It's also called the Rose Moon or the Hot Moon, but none of these nicknames refer to its color - they're all just names for the full moon in the month of June. See more stories on Insider's business page.Ī big, bright Strawberry Moon will crawl across the sky on Thursday night. The name "Strawberry Moon" comes from the Anishnaabe, Sioux, and Algonquin peoples of North America. It may be the last visible supermoon of 2021, though that is up for debate. It's named for the strawberry harvest, not for color. Borja Suarez/ReutersĪ Strawberry Moon will rise on Thursday night. A cyclist uses a cellphone to photograph the full moon, known as the "Super Flower Moon" as it rises over Arguineguin, in the south of Gran Canaria, Spain May 26, 2021.
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