Full moon end of 2020: the “Cold Moon” reaches the PIC TODAY worldwide and appears in the sky for more than 15 hours
- The last full moon of 2020 will reach its maximum on Tuesday evening around the world
- It’s called “Cold Moon” because it appears when winter begins to enter
- The full moon will rise at 16:19 ET and reach full illumination at 22:30 ET
- This full moon is also called “Long Moon of the Night” or “Moon Before Yule”
Space is giving Earth one last gift this year: the last full moon of 2020.
The ‘Cold Moon’ will leave the northeast sky at 16:19 ET (21:19 GMT), with maximum lighting at 22:30 ET (3:30 GMT) on Tuesday evening.
The nickname comes from the Native American tribe, the Mohwak, and refers to the drop in temperatures in December which means winter has arrived.
The moon will be in the sky for more than 15 hours from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning, making it the longest full moon of the year.
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The ‘Cold Moon’ will rise from the northeast sky at 16:19 ET (21:19 GMT), with maximum lighting at 22:30 ET (03:30 GMT) on Tuesday evening. The image shows the full moon in St. Petersburg, Russia
NASA’s Gordon Johnston wrote in a recent blog post: “This year’s moonlight will interfere with the visualization of the annual rain of quadrantid meteorites, which is expected to be active from December 28, 2020. until January 12, 2021, and to reach its maximum on the morning of January 3, 2021 “.
The last full moon of the year has different names, depending on your location.
Sometimes the long night moon is referred to, which refers to the fact that “the midwinter night is really long, and because the moon is above the horizon for a long time,” according to the Almanac of farmers.
“The full moon of midwinter has an elevated trajectory across the sky because it faces a low sun.”
The nickname comes from the Native American tribe, the Mohwak, and refers to the drop in temperatures in December which means winter has arrived. The photo shows the full moon hanging over Maryland
Another nickname comes from European pagans who called it the Moon before Yule.
This full moon was a celebration of the winter solstice that marks the beginning of winter.
In the southern hemisphere, where the seasons revolve, the full moon of December is often called the Strawberry Moon, Honeymoon, or Rose Moon.
Johnston points out that it could also be called the Chang’e Moon, after China’s three terrifying lunar hits that were launched around this time of year.
“These missions are named after the Chinese goddess of the moon, Chang’e, who lived on the moon with her pet rabbit, Yutu,” Johnston writes.
“The Chang’e 3 landing and its companion rover Yutu were launched on December 1 and landed on the Moon on December 14, 2013.”
The moon will be in the sky for more than 15 hours from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning, making it the longest full moon of the year. The moon falling behind a hill on the morning of December 29 in Chile
The image shows a NASA image showing what the moon will look like on the night of December 29th
“Lander Chang’e 4 and its accompanying companion Yutu-2 launched on December 7, 2018 and landed on January 3, 2019.”
“The Chang’e 5 lunar sampling return mission was launched on November 23 (at UTC, on November 24 in China’s time zone) and returned the samples to Earth on December 16, 2020, the first return of the lunar sample of humanity since 1976 “.
The moon will appear full until Thursday morning and the next time a full moon will appear on January 28, it is called “Wolf Full Moon.”
SCIENTISTS DO NOT AGREE ON THE FORMATION OF THE MOON, BUT MANY BELIEVE IT WAS THE RESULT OF AN IMPACT BETWEEN EARTH AND ANOTHER PLANET
Many researchers believe the moon formed after the Earth was hit by a planet the size of Mars billions of years ago.
This is called a giant impact hypothesis.
The theory suggests that the moon is made up of leftover debris after a collision between our planet and a body about 4.5 billion years ago.
The crashing body is sometimes called Theia, in honor of the mythical Greek Titan who was the mother of Selene, the goddess of the moon.
Many researchers believe the moon formed after the Earth was hit by a planet the size of Mars billions of years ago. This is called a giant impact hypothesis
But a mystery has persisted, revealed by the rocks that Apollo astronauts brought back from the Moon: why are the Moon and Earth so similar in their composition?
Over the years several different theories have emerged to explain the similar fingerprints of the Earth and the moon.
Perhaps the impact created a huge cloud of debris that completely mixed with the Earth and then condensed to form the moon.
Or Theia could have coincidentally been chemically similar to young Earth.
A third possibility is that the moon was formed from terrestrial materials, rather than from Theia, although this would have been a very unusual type of impact.