{"id":854,"date":"2023-08-30T06:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T22:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/?p=854"},"modified":"2023-08-30T06:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T22:53:04","slug":"supermoon-blue-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/2023\/08\/30\/supermoon-blue-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermoon @ Blue Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3311\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1693349199237-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3311\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1693349199237-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3311\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1693349199237-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3311\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1693349199237-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3311\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1693349199237-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3311\/2023\/08\/FB_IMG_1693349199237.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year&#8217;s biggest and brightest &#8220;supermoon&#8221; will rise on August 30th, 2023 \u2013 it\u2019s called &#8216;Super Blue Moon.&#8217; A blue moon isn&#8217;t actually blue \u2013 it&#8217;s just the second Full Moon in a single month with two Full Moons. This time, August gets two Full Moons, and the second one earns the title of &#8220;Blue Moon.&#8221; Supermoons are around 15% bigger and 30% brighter than a regular moon hanging out at its farthest point from Earth, known as apogee. That extra brightness really catches your eye. Imagine the Moon&#8217;s path around Earth is a little squished \u2013 that&#8217;s why sometimes it&#8217;s closer (perigee) and other times it&#8217;s farther away (apogee).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s biggest and brightest &#8220;supermoon&#8221; will rise on August 30th, 2023 \u2013 it\u2019s called &#8216;Super Blue Moon.&#8217; A blue moon isn&#8217;t actually blue \u2013 it&#8217;s just the second Full Moon in a single month with two Full Moons. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/2023\/08\/30\/supermoon-blue-moon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,98,100,99,97,51],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astronomy","tag-bluemoon","tag-fullmoon","tag-perigee","tag-supermoon","tag-tkkelvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}