Moon

A lunar eclipse can see the moon turn a dramatic shade of red.

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The sun rises behind the Calanais Standing Stones on the Isle Of Lewis. PIC: ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Calanais Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis

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The February full moon is known as the Snow Moon.

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A Harvest moon setting under a lamp post

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Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Mars seen in the night sky. There will be seven planets visible in February 2025.

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The first full moon of the year is called the Wolf Moon.

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The supermoon, called Beaver Moon, rises in the UK at around 3.30pm GMT.

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A Beaver Moon rises behind the Grade I listed St Michael's Tower on the top of Glastonbury Tor in 2017.

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The Beaver Supermoon will be visible in the night sky in the middle of November.

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The 10th full moon of the year will appear in the sky later this month.

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The front page of The Scotsman on July 21, 1969 which carried events of the first Moon landing through the night before. The timing of the story from space lead to a second edition that day.

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If the skies are clear Scottish stargazers will be able to enjoy watching a partial lunar eclipse early tomorrow morning.

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September's full moon is called the Harvest Moon.

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People walk in front of a rising supermoon at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles

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The unmistakable sight of a shooting star lighting up the night sky.

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Blue moons aren't actually blue, or that rare, but there's one in August.

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An artist's impression of the lunar pit in the Sea of Tranquillity on the Moon. Picture: University of Trento/PA Wire

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The next full moon of 2024 is the Buck Moon.

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The May full moon is called the Flower Moon.

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The moon passes in front of the sun during a solar eclipse on April 08, 2024 in the US.

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The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Mexico, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Moon blocks out sun over Mexico as crowds cheer eclipse

March's full moon is known as the Worm Moon.

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Odysseus passes over the near side of the Moon following lunar orbit during the IM-1 mission. Picture: Intuitive Machines/AFP via Getty Images

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'I am particularly drawn to Jupiter, the King of planets.' Picture: NASA.

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February will see a full moon as well as a new moon.

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February's full moon is known as the Snow Moon.

When to see February's Snow Moon and how it got its name

The first full moon of the year will take place on January 25th.

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In 1962, President John F Kennedy famously promised that the US would land astronauts on the Moon within that decade (Picture: National Archive/Newsmakers/Getty Images)

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A wolf moon will appear over the UK this month.

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The moonshot concept – as defined by Sir Tom Hunter – equates entrepreneurial leaps to sending spacecraft to the Moon (Picture: NASA/Newsmakers)

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The moon is believed to have been created after a massive collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object (Picture: Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images)

Crystals help scientists answer a profound question about the moon

Geologist-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, uses an adjustable sampling scoop to retrieve lunar samples during the second extravehicular activity (EVA-2), at Station 5 at the Taurus- Littrow landing site.

‘Crystals brought back by Apollo astronauts indicate age of Moon’
Crystals brought back by Apollo astronauts in 1972 suggest the Moon is 40 million years older than scientists thought, according to new research.

Europa or "Jupiter II" is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, with this moon orbiting at about 417,000 miles from the gas giant.

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A H-IIA rocket carrying a small lunar surface probe and other objects lifts off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on Tanegashima island, Kagoshima prefecture on September 7, 2023. Japan launched on September 7 a rocket carrying what it hopes will be its first successful Moon landing. Picture: JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images

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The super blue moon rises over Edinburgh. The blue moon refers to the second full moon in one calendar month, which occurs approximately once every two or three years. This one is also supermoon - when the Earth's natural satellite will appear about 14% bigger and 30% brighter in the sky as it reaches its closest point to Earth. Picture date: Wednesday August 30, 2023. PA Photo.

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Visitors touch a picture of the moon at Nehru planetarium as they gather to witness the landing of the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in New Delhi . India is aiming to become the first nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon's south pole, days after a Russian probe crashed in the same region.

India successfully lands spacecraft near Moon’s south pole

The full moon rises behind Edinburgh Castle. The July full moon, otherwise known as the Thunder Moon, is synonymous with summer storms.

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A Soyuz 2.1b rocket with the Luna-25 lander blasts off from the launch pad at the Vostochny cosmodrome, some 180 km north of Blagoveschensk, in the Amur region. Picture: Getty

Unmanned Russian spacecraft crashes into the Moon

Those in Scotland could have the best chance of seeing the Perseid meteor shower on Sunday night. Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images

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Moon the baby donkey with police officers from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

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The Strawberry Moon will take place at 4.41 am on Sunday, June 4. This moon is associated with the season when Native American tribes marked the ripening of ‘June-bearing’ strawberries that were ready for gathering. As a supermoon this will appear on the eastern horizon in orange hues that will present vividly on Saturday evening (June 3).

When is the Strawberry Moon in June 2023?

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